What Does Cocaine Look Like?

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What Does Cocaine Look Like: Do you know what is common in Goodfellas, Scarface, New Jack City, Flight, and Casino? Don’t you know? Let me tell you; it is the addiction to cocaine which leads to the character’s downfall.

Initially, cocaine was used as an energy booster, which boosted characters to focus on their work. Soon after, the excessive use of cocaine made them addicted and triggered immense paranoia and delusional thinking. It leads to their downfall.

As per the latest health reports, under the age of 12, more than  27,788,000 residents of the USA used cocaine at least once and more than it. This means that it is more than 6 million people admit to the use of crack cocaine.

If you are curious to know all the details about cocaine, like what cocaine looks like, what Slang for Cocaine, What is an 8 Ball Cocaine? and how it smells and tastes, then we are here to introduce you to everything in this article.

Although we are here to analyse everything about cocaine, it does not mean that you are allowed to follow the steps; it is advised not to smell or taste cocaine as it would lead the drug to be absorbed into your bloodstream.

How to identify cocaine: Look, Taste and Smell    

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What Does Cocaine Look Like?

Crack Cocaine

Powder Cocaine

Cocaine is nothing but a white powder in the form of a crystal when present in its purest form. However, the crack form of cocaine (also known as the freebase cocaine’s form) looks irregular in shape, with small and off-white rocks.

Cocaine in pure form looks like talcum powder, powdered sugar, cornstarch, white flour, or baby powder. So, we can say that it is impossible to identify cocaine when present in front of us. It might be possible to identify by smell.

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NOTE: It is just for knowledge. You are not advised to smell cocaine.

What Does Cocaine Smell Like?

Cocaine in pure form has no smell as it is odourless. Smelling cocaine would lead to ingestion, so snorting is the only way to use it. Once you ingest the cocaine, you will feel the symptoms of cocaine in your body.  

Side effects of consuming cocaine:

  • Paranoia
  • Kick in energy (as it increases dopamine)
  • Hypersensitivity
  • Nausea
  • Increased mental alertness
  • Irritability
  • Increased blood pressure

These side effects increase with the increased use of cocaine. Don’t overdose the cocaine, as it has severe side effects. You might be curious to know how I would know if it is an overdose. Sure, here are some symptoms; if you feel these, then it is an overdose of cocaine.

Cocaine Overdose Symptoms:

  • Erratic behaviour
  • Tremors
  • Heart attack
  • Seizure
  • Stroke
  • Irregular heart rhythm and Fast heart rate
  • Hallucinations

Cocaine, when smoked in the pure powder form, it is called free cocaine.

Once you heat the cocaine, then the smell will be the same as before. After heating the cocaine, the smell would be like chemicals that you might have experienced in the chemistry lab. This smell is because of the chemicals that were used to make the cocaine, like ammonia and gasoline.

If the cocaine you have has baking soda or any other cutting agent in it, then you may feel the smell of the specific ingredient present. So, if someone smokes crack cocaine in front of you, then you can detect the smell of chemical present in the cocaine. 

What Does Cocaine Taste Like?

Identifying cocaine by smell isn’t the work of a beginner. So, now you would ask, what does cocaine taste like? Yes, your question is really interesting, but again, you are not advised to taste it. It is used for knowledge that we are sharing the information.

You can become high on tasting the cocaine. So, stay away from it.

Cocaine in bear form is readily available. People use cocaine, adding in some additives as it can change the whole taste of cocaine. Like, it depends on the flavour you like to have. For example, when cocaine is mixed with cornstarch, then, it will taste like cornstarch, and when added with any other additives then, it will taste like that additive. So, it is not easy to identify cocaine by tasting it as additives can be there.

The taste of coca leat extract (which is also a form of cocaine) is bitter and unpleasant. It is important to note that coca leaves are not legal in the USA, as coca extract has cocaine present in it.

Green Cocaine’s Arrival in the Market

All the drugs present are not equally harmful; their level is different. Like, cocaine is considered a Schedule II drug, which means that it has high abuse potential and is highly addictive. 

NOTE: Because consuming cocaine is illegal. The penalty for consuming more than 500 grams (or more than 5g cocaine base) is state prison of 5-40 years and a fine of upto $5 million for the first offence.

This is all because of this punishment that dealers change the appearance of drugs to hide the detection.

In the news of February 2021, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency caught more than 430 pounds of cocaine that appeared to be Moringa Powder and green tea in Cincinnati.

After the investigation, the green powder, which is like green tea, was identified to have adulterated cocaine. 

In 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents grabbed 12 pounds of green cocaine in Philadelphia. Cocaine is green before processing. And the green colour of cocaine comes from the leaf of coca (illegal in the USA) before processing with ammonia, gasoline, and some other chemicals and additives to change it to white.

Bath Salts (Flakka): Fake Cocaine Base

Bath Salts (Flakka): Fake Cocaine Base- DATOS.ORG
Bath Salts (Flakka): Fake Cocaine Base

Have you ever heard of Bath salt? No? It is cocaine in small gelatin crystal form, which is smoked, injected, or sniffed by the addictives of the drug. It is also called fake cocaine by some people.

It is less expansive than the original cocaine, but the effects are similar as you get the same level of highness you get from consuming cocaine.

What Is the Meaning of Real Cocaine?

Cocaine is not legal, and it is an illegal stimulant. It is mainly derived from the extraction of a substance from a coca plant leaf from South Africa.

Around 1850, people started adding this type of stimulant into cough syrup, wine, soda(Coca-Cola), and other similar drinks to boost the energy level of their customers.

After that, some pharma companies stated that cocaine could be used as an energy booster, so they started adding the medicine in small amounts.

Later in the 1990s, some researchers uncovered the truth behind the use of cocaine, and their report concluded that cocaine was highly addictive to consumers. And the government of many countries has banned the use of cocaine. 

After that, people started selling cocaine in black under the cocaine street names like Snow, coke, blow, and Powder.

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Some drug dealers add additives like baking soda and other different substances and cook to get into the rock formation, which is popularly known as crack rock or crack cocaine.

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