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  2. Biosynthesis of cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Chemical structure of cocaine. The biosynthesis of cocaine has long attracted the attention of biochemists and organic chemists. This interest is partly motivated by the strong physiological effects of cocaine, but a further incentive was the unusual bicyclic structure of the molecule. The biosynthesis can be viewed as occurring in two phases ...

  3. Coca - Wikipedia

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    Coca leaf is the raw material for the manufacture of the drug cocaine, a powerful stimulant and anaesthetic extracted chemically from large quantities of coca leaves. Today, since it has mostly been replaced as a medical anaesthetic by synthetic analogues such as procaine, cocaine is best known as an illegal recreational drug.

  4. Cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Cocaine-exposed babies also tend to have smaller heads, which generally reflect smaller brains. Some studies suggest that cocaine-exposed babies are at increased risk of birth defects, including urinary tract defects and, possibly, heart defects. Cocaine also may cause an unborn baby to have a stroke, irreversible brain damage, or a heart attack.

  5. Erythroxylum novogranatense - Wikipedia

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    Environmental effects on the cocaine concentration in the leaves were smaller, so that total cocaine production per plant was largely a function of leaf mass, with environmental conditions that stimulated leaf growth giving higher cocaine yields.

  6. No fingerprints, DNA sample or leads from cocaine found at ...

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    No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in a lobby at the White House last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didn ...

  7. These maps show how dangerous illegal drugs flow around ... - AOL

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    UN World Drug Report 2016. In Peru, coca-bush cultivation jumped 44% between 2000 and 2011. While cultivation fell 31% between 2011 and 2014 (back to 2000 levels), it still accounts for 32% of ...

  8. Photos released of cocaine found in White House this summer - AOL

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    The photos show a small bag of cocaine inside a locker near the White House’s West executive entrance and were obtained by CNN from the United States Secret Service through a FOIA request. The ...

  9. Clandestine chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Items found at a meth production lab in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 2009. Clandestine chemistry is chemistry carried out in secret, and particularly in illegal drug laboratories. Larger labs are usually run by gangs or organized crime intending to produce for distribution on the black market. Smaller labs can be run by individual chemists ...