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How is cocaine produced?

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cocaine comes from the cocoa plant found in the Andes mountains in south America. in its original form it is a naturally occurring plant which local indigineous peoples frequently chew for it's mild anesthetic effect. the processing of the plant starts in the forests of south America and continues right up until it is consumed. crack is almost always made by the people who are selling it as it is very easy to do and requires less cocaine, thereby creating a wider profit margin for the seller.

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Cocaine (benzoylmethylecgonine) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. Because of the way it affects the mesolimbic reward pathway, cocaine is addictive.
Its possession, cultivation, and distribution are illegal for non-medicinal and non-government sanctioned purposes in virtually all parts of the world. Although its free commercialization is illegal and has been severely penalized in virtually all countries, its use worldwide remains widespread in many social, cultural, and personal settings.

Although the stimulant and hunger-suppressant properties of coca had been known for many centuries, the isolation of the cocaine alkaloid was not achieved until 1855. Various European scientists had attempted to isolate cocaine, but none had been successful for two reasons: the knowledge of chemistry required was insufficient at the time, and the cocaine was worsened because coca does not grow in the Eurasian region and ruined easily amidst transcontinental shipping.


The cocaine alkaloid was first isolated by the German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke in 1855. Gaedcke named the alkaloid "erythroxyline", and published a description in the journal Archiv der Pharmazie. In 1856, Friedrich Wöhler asked Dr. Carl Scherzer, a scientist aboard the Novara (an Austrian frigate sent by Emperor Franz Joseph to circle the globe), to bring him a large amount of coca leaves from South America. In 1859, the ship finished its travels and Wöhler received a trunk full of coca. Wöhler passed on the leaves to Albert Niemann, a Ph.D. student at the University of Göttingen in Germany, who then developed an improved purification process. Niemann described every step he took to isolate cocaine in his dissertation titled Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern (On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves), which was published in 1860-it earned him his Ph.D. and is now in the British Library.

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Cocaine is produce from the species of erythroxylon plants which are erythroxylon coca or erythroxylon novogranatense.

coca leaves are pulverized, mixed with an alkaline material, an organic solvent, and water, and then shaken. The water and leaves are then discarded. An acid is mixed with the solution to remove residual solvents. Baking soda is added and the mixture is dried, creating a putty-like substance called "coca paste" or "basuco.

coca paste can be smoked.

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Cocaine is derived from the coca plant, the same plant that produces chocolate. From the coca plant, a powder is produced, forming cocaine in its purest form.

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OK COKE IS EXTRACTED FROM THE COCOA PLANT CUT TO F**K PASSED ONTO ANOTHER GREEDY BA**ARD DEALER CUT SOME MORE THEN SOME MORE UNTILL IT REACHES YOUR NOSE

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Gasoline, cocoa leaves, amonia.... all sorts of sstuff. Look it up on YouTube.com. Please don't try and make it at home. You probably end up makin something that will kill you.

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Cocaine alkaloid is separated from a coca leaf extract then converted to water soluble cocaine hydrochloride by adding hydrochloric acid.

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I answered this elsewhere..

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