Is Cocaine bought on the streets of Miami likely to be purer than that bought on the streets in the UK?
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It appears as if you've already answered your own question, regarding whether the dealer is greedy or not.  This question is ridiculous first off and to try and answer it is even more ridiculous.
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Crack is a street drug as is cocaine. Crack's main ingredient is cocaine, although it has gone through a process of bastardization and the form is comverted from powder to "rock"- yes, crack is usually smoked although it can be injected as well. Usually cocaine is snorted through the nose in powder form.\n\nCrack cocaine, a form of cocaine base, is derived from powder cocaine. Unlike the processing of freebase cocaine, converting powder cocaine into crack cocaine does not involve any flammable solvents. The powder cocaine is simply dissolved in a solution of sodium bicarbonate and water. The solution is boiled and a solid substance separates from the boiling mixture. This solid substance, crack, is removed and allowed to dry. The crack cocaine is then broken or cut into "rocks," each typically weighing from one-tenth to one-half of a gram. One gram of pure powder cocaine will convert to approximately 0.89 grams of crack cocaine. The DEA estimates that crack rocks are between 75% and 90% pure cocaine. \n\nThe name "crack" comes from the crackling sound the drug makes when it is burned;
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it is extracted from the coca plant in south america, BUT there are so many other things that are in most batches of cocaine (meaning cocaine is "cut with" other products) such as analgesic drugs or even things like vitamin c or talcom powder, and most street coke is only around 40% pure cocaine...so its hard to say what the main ingredient is.\n\nthe side effects depend on the frequency of use, how long you have been using, and how much you blow. an occaisonal user will probably experience little to no side effects, while a moderate user (once or twice a week) may begin to experince a "drained" feeling somewhere around 30-60 minutes after use, or a slight increase in irritability or other such things. a heavy user (every day, multiple times a day) will experience a pretty harsh come-down where one would feel exhausted, depressed, and like there is no point to doing anything because everything feels so BLAH and the only important or fun thing is drugs. they start to have mood swings, become irritated easily, paranoid, insomnia sets in which causes one to do more and more coke throughout the day to stay awake and live. it effects your life and your friends and at some point its hard to function in a normal day. pretty soon you NEED it, coke is all you think about. you think about when you can do it next, how much you have left, and where you can get it when you run out....\n\ni think that is probably all i can say at this point.
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yeah because cocaine is prob one of the worst.. they are both class a drugs but out of the 2 speed is better. It doesnt have any come downs but it is very dangerous as it makes you hard speed up and if your body reacts you can die. Cocaine changed you hole personality. My ex boyfriend got himself in so much trouble though it.... he owes money to big people. It starts off as harmless fun every now and again but its addicitive and hard to get off.\n\nTry and make them stop everything.. drugs are illegal for a reason. I know that sounds boring and goodie goodie but trust me, i know people whos lives have gone so bad through drugs. I live in a society where drugs are a normal weekend thing... my friends are so different when they do this, and i cant bare to be around them. They look depserate all fighting over the last sniff or tablet! its horrible
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Depends on the purity.
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Yes it does give you blisters on the outside of the nostril part, but that is after some excessive use, all depends on how pure the cocaine is.
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In 2001, wholesale cocaine prices nationwide ranged from $12,000 to $35,000 per kilogram. That is a little of 2 lbs. At the same time you have to realize that in its pure form that's how much money may be made (also factor that it was 2001 and prices have gone up especially considering the high demand these days) but when cocaine makes it through the ranks of dealers to the consumer its going to be "stepped-on." This is the idea that a dealer will cut the coke with something else, usually baking powder or baby laxatives. A lot more money can be made by cutting coke this way and actually spreading out a pound to more.
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not very. thats why we get good drugs in america.
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YES! The trend in Europe and America--for the last 100 years, or so-- is toward more acceptance of differing lifestyles. I'm old enough to remember segregation. And drug use was totally non-accepted back in the 1950s.
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Cocaine is an extra from coca leaves.  The leaves are shredded and soaked in acid (hydrochloric or sulfuric) then extracted with an organic solvent (benzene, methyl ethyl ketone, lots of other choices).  The organic solvent is evaporated to obtain cocaine as the chloride or bisulfate salt.\n\nIt's mostly grown in countries in northern South America (Columbia, Peru, Bolivia).
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For me coke is much better
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From a drug store or on the street?
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well its a known fact the cia are behind smuggling in cocaine. Look up this site for links its being ignored.\n\n\nhttp://www.csun.edu/CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia/\n\nwesley snipes new jack city "lets be honest, oozies arent made in harlem, not one of us owns a poppy field, this is Big Business" \n\nim not saying flat out they are behind it but heres evidence to refute that they arent.
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http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf\n\nHomeland Security Report - Page 7:\n\nIn 2005 the government estimates the following crossed our Southern Boarder:\n\n5.6 to 11.2 million pounds of cocaine.\n\n34.3 to 68.6 million pound of marijuana.\n\n*********************************\n\nFederal Drug "Seizures" on our  Southern Boarder in Fiscal Year 2005:\n\n1,129,275 pounds of cocaine.\n6,866,465 pounds of marijuana\n     16,790 pounds of methamphetamine.\n\n\nAccording to the National Drug Intelligence Center, THE cartels are “the predominant smugglers, transporters, and wholesale distributors of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin in the United States” and “are expanding their control over the distribution of these drugs in areas long controlled by Colombian and Dominican criminal groups, including areas of New York and Florida.”
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I think pot usage was wider spread back then before the government dug in with all the anti-drug campaigning and subsidies to law enforcement.  The taboo of it has been softened too.  Coke was off the hook back then, really just getting started...but I don't think it's any worse than today, considering how strong the growing darker forces of the Columbian Drug Cartel have become.  So, all-in-all, the same...basing that on information from the media and the occasional creepy book or two covering the subject from Barnes & Noble....
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Because of the press is the short answer.\n\nHave you ever noticed when you watch the early evening news on the BBC there is NEVER anything positive on it?  For the positive news you always have to wait for the local news.  I don't even bother with the late news no more cause that s even more depressing.\n\nNot read on the cocaine story but as an ex-user i will say that it wouldn't surprise me.  Cocaine is not just a street drug.  It's a dance floor drug and a bedroom drug too.  So the average cocaine user is probably not your stereotype streetmugger.  They are more likely to be crackheads anyway.  You get more value for money if you crystallize the stuff.  And it ain't no cheap habit either.\n\nThere is nothing wrong with the British people.  I've lived here 20 years now  (half a lifetime) and the people are one of the things that prevent me from leaving although at the rate it's going for the rest it is only a matter of time before i'm out.\n\nIn 1999 i moved to Holland for a year. Whilst there i really wasn't happy and one day i watched Westminster today on daytime television.  Can't remember what the debate was (it was the House of Commons) but it had me in tears of laughter.  It came across as some twats with a good education, judging by their accents, putting on a play.  But they couldn't act and that was why it was so funny.   Ponit is that i never thought much more of it till i came back in 2001.  I saw the same twats performing their play but this time they were doing it with my tax money.  House of Commons has never beem the same in my view.\n\nThis country is stuck in a time warp of ancient laws that have been adapted to modern times.  It is ruled by the ones that are so envious of the real aristocracy that they are prepared to get rid of it.  but not before they have made themselves part of that aristocracy.  And it is shocking how many think it acceptable to compare Magna Carta to a constitution.  The British monarchy has told the pope to sod off and started their own religion since that was compiled!\n\nHonours should be given to commoners.  But never should a commoner be allowed to sit in the House of Lords.  Not even if he saved the Queen's life personally.\n\nSo when it comes to democracy it is probably one of the worst.  Whilst various European countries have had referendums over different things to do with the EU i still have to see the first one in Britain.  \n\nI grew up in Belgium.  One of the things i remember is yearly shopping trips to get the christmas shopping in Dover.  M&S for clothing, Woolworths for toys and Quality Street by the weight Boots for stocking up on the vitamins. Now the Belgians don't even bother with a boat service between Dover and Ostend no more.  And P&O or any of the other ferries don't have one either. (there is one that goes from Ramsgate though)  Did you know that on the ferries to France the chocolate is twice the price of what it costs in the supermarkets in Belgium?  And the Brits sail to Calais and drive to Belgium.  I have regularly seen them bulk buy washing powder and drag it back to Britain!?!\n\nI think in a way the British people do deserve the critisism.  When it comes to politics they always stick with what they know.  Blair will lose the next election and the conservatives will come to power.  And there will be another cycle where one party blames the other for 5 years, then some good years and eventually they will get too comfortable and take to much liberties and the whole thing will go back to labour.  or that is how i see it anyway.\n\nLessons from other countries?  One i would love to mention.\nIn the 50's the schooling system in Belgium was controlled by the church.  Church and state were one.  Then the liberals came to power and there were the school wars.  It lead to the seperation of school, church and state.  Choice of religion at school became a constitutional right and for those that were not rel
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soft drugs were always legal in holland. hard drugs never were. \n\nif the crime rate declined/ inclined/ whatever in holland, it had nothing to do with the policy on drugs - that hasn't changed.