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To solve life's problems and to satisfy ourselves, some of us go somewhere else to try and cool off and. Some of us take drugs instead. When people are feeling down or the want to have some fun and excitement in their day they use cocaine, a very powerful stimulant type of drug drug. Most people who take the drug don´t know how effectful it can be on the body. They just think cocaine is a hell-of-a-drug to have fun with but there are some things that they would like to find out before using it. Cocaine can be devastating and, with the right amount of consumption of it, it gives horrible withdrawals and could lead to possible death. This drug is not helping anything in this world but killing abusers of the drug, which makes this drug inadequate for society. …show more content…
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. The most common ones are crack, snow, rock, coke, blow, Charlie, and flake. The drug has some positives which it gives you tons of energy, lots of confidence, and produces short-term euphoria. But it also has its down. Cocaine is a very powerful that, when used at the time, increases body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, creates

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