![]() ![]() ![]() In 1855, German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke successfully isolated the alkaloid cocaine from the coca plant and named it “erythroxyline”. When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Americas, they first banned the coca plant as an “agent of the devil”, but then reversed the decision when they saw that the natives were simply unable to work without it. ![]() Cocaine is classified as a Schedule II drug 1, indicating that it has a high abuse potential as well as a legitimate medical use in some situations.įor over a thousand years, the indigenous peoples of South America have chewed the leaves of the Erythroxylum Coca plant for its many nutrients and pleasure – inducing alkaloids. In its powdered form, cocaine may be snorted, sublimated and then inhaled, dissolved and injected, rubbed on the gums, or heated and smoked. Its effects are felt almost immediately and are short-lived, disappearing within a few minutes to an hour. Because it is a central nervous system stimulant, cocaine speeds up many bodily functions and induces euphoria, energy, mental alertness, and hypersensitivity. The resulting paste is then drained of liquid and dried into bricks of cocaine, ready for distribution.Ĭocaine is a strong stimulant drug, derived from the leaves of two species of the Coca plant native to South America. After being harvested, fresh coca leaves are soaked in gasoline, drained and dried, mixed with strong solvents like lime and potassium, and soaked once again in acid to fully extract all alkaloids. Cocaine is an addictive stimulant drug with a long and expensive production process. ![]()
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