Stage one of production affects the quality of the raw cocaine paste made by farmers in the jungle mountain "pasta" labs. Paste purity content varies from farmer to farmer based on the recipe that they use, and whether they make it in pozo pits with acidic solutions or metal drums using gasoline and ammonia. Or whether they piss and shit in the paste which many do as a joke on Americans. With the 90's murder of Escobar, the cartel's power and the manufacturing process declined. The farmer's raw pasta of 30% to 80% cocaine undergoes the second stage in processing being refined in "base" labs run by thousands of clandestine mom and pop labs rather than Escobar's large centralized labs.…
He himself had used Cocaine and promoted it. Melanie Ann Apel, Author of the book Cocaine And Your Nose writes that Cocaine had been added to Coca Cola in 1886. By a man named John Pemberton but then taken out in 1903 because people had discovered that others had been getting…
Essay #2-Chasing Heroin was a documentary that highlighted many different programs to help with America’s increasing Heroin issues. There were two programs that were mentioned to help people with their heroin addiction. The first program is known as the Law Enforcement Addiction Diversion program, or LEAD program. This program has a goal to not punish people for their addiction but to improve their quality of life. This program essentially gives users a second chance by instead of taking them to jail right away.…
Crack vs Powder Cocaine: Unjust Prison Sentences of Two Races For decades the United States has experienced an imbalance sentencing problem between African Americans and White Americans who use crack cocaine and powder cocaine respectively. Although both of these drugs are similar to one another, African Americans have been incarcerated more often than White Americans. According to the NAACP, from 1980 to 2008, the number of prisoners in America increased from about 500,000 to 2.3 million. Today, the US makes up about 5% of the world population and has almost 25% of the world prisoners (NAACP). Out of the 2.3 million prisoners who are in U.S. prisons, nearly 1 million of those locked up are African Americans (NAACP).…
White morsel cocaine is no modified from capable cocaine, with the exception of the fact they are adjusted in structure, life structures and office one expends the medication. This equitable shows one of the above shortcomings in the way these measures are drawn closer. The capital ingested if President Richard Nixon native accustomed the nickname "The war on medications" in 1971 was to betoken the seriousness of medications in the United States. This organization that a flat out activity on medications, biologic trafficking, biologic exchange, deals, consuming et cetera, would be fomented out after a personnel of tolerance. What a great deal of people did not ahead from this "War on medications" was the antagonistic would happen.…
She was born on january 27,1983. She was very lightly colored, weighed 2 pounds and was premature. The year of 1983 was a time that was hard for most people,many people were struggling and and some were just out of it. Mainly because there was a drug currently popular called crack cocaine. Many people used it so it was hard not to see traumatic things in your everyday life.…
Laughing gas was introduced in the early 1800’s and it was used for women problems. The hyperdermic needle and pure cocaine was also introduced by doctors to treat morphine Addiction but by 1884 the pure cocaine was being used to treat illnesses because there were no cures at that time, just a medicine to ease their pain. In the 1920’s- 30’s marijuana became very popular because cocaine was underground and very expensive.…
Coca trees were used to get cocaine by taking out the cocaine from the leaves of the tree. In 1922 cocaine became illegal but some people still decided to sell and buy cocaine. When the border of the US and Mexico became more controlled cocaine was shipped in the Caribbean. This resulted in a lot of cocaine which lowered the prices.…
Cocaine was founded thousands of years ago in the cocoa plant in South America which is then melted down to a solidified figure and then crushed down to a powdery crystallized substance. It is used recreationally across the globe by snorting it through the nose, smoking it through a pipe, or injecting it with a needle and is rarely used as an anesthetic in medicinal purposes. The drug travels all over the world to supply to many people but is illegal in many countries like the U.S., India, South Africa and Germany. The only countries they are legal is in Mexico and the Czech Republic. As the drug became more popular and well known, people started to make names for cocaine.…
According to,(), the U.S. government saw crack cocaine being used mainly by lower class African Americans and they used their power to punish them although crack cocaine is the same as powder cocaine just in rock form. The punishment for crack cocaine became 100-1 in regards to the sentence for powder. They government also made a mandatory sentence for crack users which caused the incarceration rates to skyrocket. Multiple judges did not agree with these mandatory sentences as they felt they were sending low level offenders away for years although they did not deserve it. The ratio of crack to powder is 18 to 1 today which shows us that the U.S. still will not accept them as equals mainly because that powder cocaine is more used by whites while crack still is more popular with African-Americans.…
Drug abuse has been reported in many countries for hundreds of years, including in the United States of America. Here in the United Stated, Drug abuse has been a problem from the foundation of the country. Opium and alcohol were some of the first substances that were used and abused in early American history. During the 1800s, developments in medicine led to the creation of morphine, codeine and cocaine.…
In fact, most cocaine addicts have suffered “hallucinations and paranoid thoughts [which] are consistent with a condition known as cocaine psychosis” (Skirboll, 97). And the many effects received from cocaine for a short-lived high are plainly too numerous. And just as it was in the early 1980s, with being the first city hit hardest from cocaine, “use of any illicit drug use . . . appears to be most prevalent in Los Angeles (8.5%)” (Hughes, 1482).…
Most notable of these drugs would be Cocaine which was recently made in 1989. Now, these drugs where not illegal except that you had to have a prescription to get it. However, due to lax enforcement in New Orleans this drug was highly accessible due to the drug stores selling it to almost anyone. As a result of its cheap price a number of blacks where using it, and due to its overuse a number died. This was cheered among the white racists who gladly allowed this drug to roam the streets in hope it would kill off most of the blacks.…
Drugs were a common part of everyday life; they were not looked down upon like they are now. You could find them easily in convenience stores. Cocaine could be found in one of the world’s most popular drinks Coca…
What is Heroin? Heroin has an extremely addictive quality. It mimics the brains natural processes for obtaining pleasure. Opioids access and alter the very components that are involved in producing pleasure and removing…