Cocaine Essay

Cocaine is a powerful addictive drug that affects the whole body in different ways. This drug has been around in America since 1855. In this year there were products that the average person used that had amounts of cocaine in it. The products that had cocaine in it were the beverage coke cola and medicine for numbing your gums. But before manufactures’ were using cocaine in things we use, three thousand years before the ancient Inca people use to chew coca leaves, which is one of the ingredients of making cocaine. They chewed coco leaves to get there heart racing and to speed up their breathing so they can work longer hours and because they lived where there was thin air. Also by them chewing the coco leaves it would tell their body that they aren’t hunger because they didn’t have enough food to eat. Cocaine was really popular between 1970s and 1980s in New York City. It was a large amount of people that died from this drug around this time.

There are two types of cocaine substances, crack cocaine and cocaine. Crack is made by putting powdered cocaine in a mixture of water and ammonia or u can use baking soda. The mixture is boiled until it is solid. Then solid is removed from the liquid, dried, and then broken into the chunks that are white and looks like little rocks. Crack Cocaine is usually smoked. Cocaine is made by picking the coco leaves then crushing the leaves and adding a combination of chemicals, which would form a paste. Then you get a big bucket and a cloth that has tiny holes in it so you will be able to drain the mixture and squeeze it. After that you place the paste in the bucket with the cloth, and then you would add gasoline to the paste and mix it together. After that you let the mixture sit. Next...

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...; they often associate it with crack. Crack is a form of cocaine which is mixed with chemicals causing it to be very extremely addictive. According to a study done by the University of Michigan, 2.7 percent of 12th graders used cocaine in the year 2012. Cocaine is used more by white teens than blacks, but that is because of the availability of the drug.

Cocaine has been around many years and has destroyed many people lives. If the government was stricter on the use of cocaine and the production of cocaine there wouldn’t be people dying and children’s wouldn’t be losing their parents from it. Also the government should make special police forces so they can stop any illegal drugs coming in the United States and the use of it. The world would be more peaceful and there wouldn’t be any problems. But society will always find another thing to become additive to.