"Curly Surmudgeon" <Curly.is.not@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:11:21 -0800, Eric Gisin wrote:
>
>>> "Coke" is not "coca paste" nor "coca leaf" any more than a poppy seed
is
>>> heroin.
>>>
>> Coca paste is to coca leaf like ha****sh is to cannabis leaf. Toke up
Curly, you're rabid.
>
> Your header said "paranoid Chavez on coke." Nothing in the article says
> that. Please share any cites to substantiate your claim, the article
doesn't.
>
Google coca-paste. It is 40-90% cocaine sulfate. It is addictive, and
Chavez is a junkie.
http://www.cocaine.org/cocapaste/index.html
Coca-paste smoking in some Latin American countries: a severe and unabated
form of addiction
by Jeri FR, Bull Narc 1984 Apr-Jun; 36(2):15-31
ABSTRACT
Coca paste is an intermediary product in the chemical extraction of
cocaine from coca leaves.
Abusers smoke coca paste in a dried form, which contains from 40 to 91 per
cent cocaine. Over the
past 10 years, this pattern of drug abuse has attained epidemic
pro****tions in some Latin American
countries, particularly in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. Addiction to coca
paste develops in a few
months and has serious health, social and economic consequences. The
problem is particularly acute
in Latin American countries because of the high doses of coca paste
involved. The smoking of coca
paste causes four distinct successive phases of mental disorder: euphoria,
dysphoria, hallucinosis
and paranoid psychosis. It can produce severe intoxication, prolonged or
relapsing psychosis and,
in some cases, death. Cocaine has been found in the blood of coca-leaf
chewers, coca-paste smokers
and users of cocaine hydrochloride. Excessive coca-paste smoking is often
resistant to therapeutic
interventions and there is a high rate of relapse after treatment and
rehabilitation
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