Random Facts About Cocaine

1. Cocaine is extracted from a bush with a ridiculous name, and yes, most of it comes from Colombia.

2. There are two forms of cocaine, powder and crystalline, you might recognize crystalline by the common name "crack". All that means is that crack has not been neutralized in an acid.

3. A lot of people think of cocaine as a "dirty" drug, funny isn't it? How we rationalize drugs into a category? Weed is okay, everyone does it, or taking E or LSD is just being experimental, but one is crossing the line if they dabble in coke, meth, crack, or heroin, "dirty drugs" Come on guys really? Speaking from personal experience "A drug is a drug is a drug."

4. Did you know 35.9 million Americans have tried cocaine? Also, 2.1 million people report they are regular users.

5. After marijuana, cocoaine is the second most commonly used drug in the United States.

6. You may administer by the following: smoking, snorting, injecting. If you want it in you obviously there are plenty of options.

7. DRUG CAUSES EUPHORIC EFFECT!!! This is not fabricated. You are alert, strong, invincible, have plenty of self confidence and energy. Want to know why college kids use so much adderall? Because they can't afford cocaine or speed. Did you know that adderall is only 3 molecules away from being speed and they feed it to children with ADHD.

8. They used to put it in wine if France, in America they used it as an anesthetic.

9. I know you've all been waiting for this one. Yes, cocaine was put into Coca-Cola, however it was not in the 60's like everyone wants to believe. They used put 9 milligrams of cocaine in each beverage and it was removed in 1903. However, they still use a cocaine free version of the cocoa leaf in coca-cola as a flavor additivive.

10. Congratulations parents! This specific drug was officially named the drug of the 70's and 80's.

11. Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes both preferred the drug.

12. Also known as, coke, blow, C, marching powder, and nose candy. I thought you might like to know this improve your street smarts a smidge.

13. 1 gram of cocaine will set you back $80 to $100 dollars, crack cocaine $10 to $25, this could possibly be the answer to why so many poverty stricken and/or homeless people are called crackheads.

14. More than 400,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year.

15. Remember that Euphoria? Well, that also comes with antisocial tendencies, depression, anxiety, and paranoia.

16. Oh yeah, it is also true that traces of cocaine can be found on every one out of five dollar bills. But cocaine is a powder which can get everywhere so that doesn't mean your dollar bill was used as a snorting straw.

17. I almost forgot the most important fact. I assume that everyone knows this fact yet people still use the drug. It can kill you! Heart attack, stroke, overdose, panic attacks, cocaethylene poisoning (thats when you drink alcohol while on cocaine), weight loss, sleep deprivision are all things attributed to cocaine use.

I was 15 when I tried it and 19 when I stopped trying it. I can't say I was ever addicted, maybe doing it a dozen times in those four years. If you ever wanted to feel like no one in the world could touch you, that you could climb any mountain or multi-task better than Martha Stewart, this is your drug. Every thing about it is fast. You're a fast talker, fast thinker, fast doer. I had never been a doer. I always thought about ideas I had, or getting things done early. No matter what I thought or did I would still procrastinate the hell out of everything. I would tell myself that I worked better under pressure. Then a line of powder and a straw changed my mind completely. I was a doer. Do you have any idea how hard it is to stop being a doer?

I guess for me all it took was one long glance in the mirror one day. At 85 lbs and sitting in a chair not even noticing I was scratching the wood with my nails, rocking back and forth as my body convulsed with chills and sweat draped my neck and forehead I realized that this was not attractive nor was it classy in any sense. Keep in mind however I was not addicted to cocaine and it really wasn't that hard not to do. I could get the same high with less effects out of adderall. But that is another story.