The cottage where Ulysses Grant finished his memoirs is now an historic monument and is kept how it was when he died. On his desk is a large bottle of liquid cocaine. Park rangers check it annually to make sure it is all there.
Sigmund Freud was a chronic migraine and sinusitis sufferer, and he took cocaine to alleviate his sinusitis but found it did little for his headaches.
Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis, including concepts such as the id, ego, superego, and libido, was all done under the influence of a constant supply of cocaine.
Freud was interested in the clinical uses of cocaine, and he suggested using it to wean drug addicts of morphine. His friend, the Viennese eye surgeon, Carl Koller took up and used the idea. Having watched a colleague Dr Von Fieschl battle with morphine addiction, he prescribed injections of cocaine as a cure only to find his patient has got hooked on the drug instead. Koller and Freud thus created Europe's first cocaine addict.
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel Last Bow, his hero, the detective Sherlock Holmes suffered from a rare Asiatic disease. This was an euphemism for a cocaine overdose.
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced in 1886. At one point, Coca-Cola contained nearly nine milligrams of cocaine in each glass.
Before Coca-Cola, there was Coca Wine, 10% alcohol and 8.5% cocaine extract by volume, and endorsed by Queen Victoria and Pope Leo XIII.
Only one commercial entity in America can import coco leaves with approval from the DEA, The Stepan Company, after extracting the cocaine, the leaves are then shipped to Coca Cola to be used as an ingredient in the secret recipe thus making an imitation recipe near impossible.
Up until the year 1916, London's famed department store Harrods offered packages of cocaine (and heroin) complete with syringe and spare needles, which was recommended as “A Useful Present for Friends at the Front.”
In the 1970's McDonald's had to redesign its coffee stirrers from spoons to paddles because too many people were using them for snorting and measuring cocaine.
The American comic actor Tim Allen was arrested on October 2, 1978 in the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport for possession of over 650 grams (1.43 lb) of cocaine. He provided the names of other dealers to reduce his sentence from life imprisonment to 7 years.
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith's frontman, claims that he spent at least $5 million on cocaine in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1985 a drug smuggler jettisoned 76 pounds (40 kilograms) of cocaine from his airplane over Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest. A black bear (later dubbed 'Pablo EskoBear') found and ate all of the cocaine and died of an inconceivably huge overdose.
Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis, including concepts such as the id, ego, superego, and libido, was all done under the influence of a constant supply of cocaine.
Freud was interested in the clinical uses of cocaine, and he suggested using it to wean drug addicts of morphine. His friend, the Viennese eye surgeon, Carl Koller took up and used the idea. Having watched a colleague Dr Von Fieschl battle with morphine addiction, he prescribed injections of cocaine as a cure only to find his patient has got hooked on the drug instead. Koller and Freud thus created Europe's first cocaine addict.
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel Last Bow, his hero, the detective Sherlock Holmes suffered from a rare Asiatic disease. This was an euphemism for a cocaine overdose.
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced in 1886. At one point, Coca-Cola contained nearly nine milligrams of cocaine in each glass.
Before Coca-Cola, there was Coca Wine, 10% alcohol and 8.5% cocaine extract by volume, and endorsed by Queen Victoria and Pope Leo XIII.
Only one commercial entity in America can import coco leaves with approval from the DEA, The Stepan Company, after extracting the cocaine, the leaves are then shipped to Coca Cola to be used as an ingredient in the secret recipe thus making an imitation recipe near impossible.
Up until the year 1916, London's famed department store Harrods offered packages of cocaine (and heroin) complete with syringe and spare needles, which was recommended as “A Useful Present for Friends at the Front.”
In the 1970's McDonald's had to redesign its coffee stirrers from spoons to paddles because too many people were using them for snorting and measuring cocaine.
The American comic actor Tim Allen was arrested on October 2, 1978 in the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport for possession of over 650 grams (1.43 lb) of cocaine. He provided the names of other dealers to reduce his sentence from life imprisonment to 7 years.
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Steven Tyler, Aerosmith's frontman, claims that he spent at least $5 million on cocaine in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1985 a drug smuggler jettisoned 76 pounds (40 kilograms) of cocaine from his airplane over Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest. A black bear (later dubbed 'Pablo EskoBear') found and ate all of the cocaine and died of an inconceivably huge overdose.
On January 18, 1990. Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested by the FBI in a sting operation for possession of crack cocaine. The incident was caught on tape and widely reported in the media. Despite the arrest, Barry went on to be re-elected as mayor after serving a prison sentence.
When Jose Luis Betancourt won the $5.5 million Texan state lottery in 2005 he had to forfeit the winnings because he bought the ticket with the proceeds of selling 36 grams of cocaine to a federal informant.
In 2010, three burglars thought that they had found a stash of cocaine while breaking into a woman’s house in Central Florida. They ended up snorting the ashes of a man and his two great danes.
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán is estimated to have imported over 450,000 kg of cocaine into the US over the course of his career, 500 imperial tons. This does not count his imports to Europe and other destinations. In 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission named Guzmán "Public Enemy Number One" for the influence of his criminal network in Chicago. The last person to receive such notoriety was Al Capone in 1930.
The movie The Blues Brothers had a cocaine budget.
The fake cocaine actors snort on film is vitamin B powder, a common cutting agent for real cocaine.
Jonah Hill had to be hospitalized while filming Wolf of Wall Street because he snorted so much fake cocaine.
Cocaine is derived from the leaves of the coca plant. Three countries — Colombia, Peru and Bolivia — account for all the coca harvested in the world.
Cocaine that is smoked gets to the brain in as little as eight seconds, while cocaine that is snorted will take about ten minutes.
When you take cocaine, the odds of you having a heart attack in the next hour goes up 24 times or 2400 %.
According to figures from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, coca farmers in Colombia receive $1.30 for each kilogram of fresh coca leaf. In Peru and Bolivia, farmers receive $3.00 per kilogram as the leaf is air-dried before being sold.
Colombian drug smugglers often dump their illicit cocaine cargo when confronted by law enforcement. Lobster fishermen in Nicaragua's Mosquito coast often end up recovering the cocaine, calling it "white lobster".
1 in 40 people in Scotland uses cocaine, a higher rate than anywhere else in the world.
Less than 5% of the world lives in the U.S., but Americans consume about 37% of cocaine in the world.
It is legal to consume any drug privately in Spain and that the Spanish rank amongst the highest in Europe for cocaine usage.
Crack cocaine is called "Crack" because of the sound it makes when heated.
Cocaine raises dopamine levels by 250%, compared to 100% from sex and 50% from food.
Taking cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán is estimated to have imported over 450,000 kg of cocaine into the US over the course of his career, 500 imperial tons. This does not count his imports to Europe and other destinations. In 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission named Guzmán "Public Enemy Number One" for the influence of his criminal network in Chicago. The last person to receive such notoriety was Al Capone in 1930.
The movie The Blues Brothers had a cocaine budget.
The fake cocaine actors snort on film is vitamin B powder, a common cutting agent for real cocaine.
Jonah Hill had to be hospitalized while filming Wolf of Wall Street because he snorted so much fake cocaine.
Cocaine is derived from the leaves of the coca plant. Three countries — Colombia, Peru and Bolivia — account for all the coca harvested in the world.
Cocaine that is smoked gets to the brain in as little as eight seconds, while cocaine that is snorted will take about ten minutes.
When you take cocaine, the odds of you having a heart attack in the next hour goes up 24 times or 2400 %.
According to figures from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, coca farmers in Colombia receive $1.30 for each kilogram of fresh coca leaf. In Peru and Bolivia, farmers receive $3.00 per kilogram as the leaf is air-dried before being sold.
Colombian drug smugglers often dump their illicit cocaine cargo when confronted by law enforcement. Lobster fishermen in Nicaragua's Mosquito coast often end up recovering the cocaine, calling it "white lobster".
1 in 40 people in Scotland uses cocaine, a higher rate than anywhere else in the world.
Less than 5% of the world lives in the U.S., but Americans consume about 37% of cocaine in the world.
It is legal to consume any drug privately in Spain and that the Spanish rank amongst the highest in Europe for cocaine usage.
Crack cocaine is called "Crack" because of the sound it makes when heated.
Cocaine raises dopamine levels by 250%, compared to 100% from sex and 50% from food.
Taking cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%.
Source Stratfor.com
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