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  2. Precursor chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Drug precursors, also referred to as precursor chemicals or simply precursors, are substances used to manufacture illicit drugs. Most precursors also have legitimate commercial uses and are legally used in a wide variety of industrial processes and consumer products, such as medicines, flavourings, and fragrances.

  3. Free base - Wikipedia

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    Trituration of the free base from cocaine hydrochloride (or "cooking") is done by dissolving the cocaine hydrochloride in water over constant heat, while simultaneously adding a base (such as baking soda) to form the free base cocaine. The free base of cocaine forms a solid "rock", pieces of which can be smoked directly (crack cocaine). [4]

  4. Cocaine paste - Wikipedia

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    In South America, coca paste, also known as cocaine base and, therefore, often confused with cocaine sulfate in North America, is relatively inexpensive and is widely used by low-income populations. The coca paste is smoked in tobacco or cannabis cigarettes and use has become widespread in several Latin American countries.

  5. Lacing (drugs) - Wikipedia

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    Black cocaine, and cocaine paste, are impure forms of cocaine. The most common cocaine adulterants found in 1998 in samples in Rome , Italy were lidocaine and caffeine . [ 20 ] Cocaine is sometimes mixed with methylamphetamine , methylphenidate , and ephedrine , but is usually mixed with non psychoactive chemicals such as mannitol , inositol ...

  6. List of polysubstance combinations - Wikipedia

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    Cannabis: Ketamine: Cocaine: Simmered Getting Simmered Cannabis: Nicotine: Blunt, joint, spliff, Jonko A rolled cannabis cigarette usually made with rolling paper. A blunt is a cigar hollowed out and filled with cannabis. It is rolled with the tobacco-leaf "wrapper" from an inexpensive cigar. Blunts take their name from Phillies Blunt brand ...

  7. Benzoylecgonine - Wikipedia

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    In 2005, scientists found surprisingly large quantities of benzoylecgonine in Italy's Po River and used its concentration to estimate the number of cocaine users in the region. [4] In 2006, a similar study was performed in the Swiss ski town of Saint-Moritz using wastewater to estimate the daily cocaine consumption of the population. [ 5 ]

  8. Crack cocaine - Wikipedia

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    For example, excessive cocaine use can lead to formication, nicknamed "cocaine bugs" or "coke bugs", where the affected people believe they have, or feel, parasites crawling under their skin [25] (similar delusions may also be associated with high fever or in connection with alcohol withdrawal, sometimes accompanied by visual hallucinations of ...

  9. Cocaine - Wikipedia

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    The highest prevalence of cocaine use was in Australia and New Zealand (2.1%), followed by North America (2.1%), Western and Central Europe (1.4%), and South and Central America (1.0%). [36] Since 1961, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has required countries to make recreational use of cocaine a crime. [37]