PS268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crack Cocaine, Topical Anesthetic, Free Base
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The leaves of the coca plant (erythoxylon coca) contain trace amounts of cocaine (less than 1% by weight) In countries in the andean mountains where the ecoca plant grows namely bolivia, Colombia and peru, coca leaves were (and are) cewed to provide a little but of stimulation to help labourers get through their long work days. As far as anyone knows, no one has gotten addicted to chewing coca leaves. Story of cocaine really starts in 1859 when a young phd student in germany named. Once cocaine was purified there was money to be made so cocaine was added to just about anything it would dissolve in. The new cocaine-la(cid:272)ed (cid:449)i(cid:374)e (cid:449)as i(cid:374) fa(cid:272)t so i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t that the pope a(cid:449)a(cid:396)ded it his (cid:862)gold. Freud even proposed that cocaine be used as a cure for morphine addition. Later freud realized that the morphine addiction was replaced by cocaine addicion, which be any account is worse.
