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Bluelighter
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Levamisole is being seen as a cocaine cut more and more frequently - and my only question is why. The typical news blurb is that the levamisole cut is recreationally inactive, pharmaceutically pure, added at the source, and significantly more expensive than other cuts. Cocaine dealers do this because they are evil kingpins who enjoy killing people, and the world keeps on spinning.
But this really leads to the question - why levamisole? Higher costs, no apparent gain, and causes toxicity in end users. If you want to cut with something that does nothing, there are a lot of cheaper options.
Then I ran across this...
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/jvpt/2009/00000032/00000002/art00008
Is a similar mechanism possible in humans? Could this possible levamisole -> aminorex metabolic conversion have a recreational/synergestic effect in combination with cocaine?
But this really leads to the question - why levamisole? Higher costs, no apparent gain, and causes toxicity in end users. If you want to cut with something that does nothing, there are a lot of cheaper options.
Then I ran across this...
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/jvpt/2009/00000032/00000002/art00008
Beginning in 2004, the horseracing industry experienced an epidemic of drug positives for the amphetamine-like drug aminorex. Investigation of the therapeutic treatment of the horses called positive for this drug suggested that its source was from the administration of the anthelmintic levamisole.
Is a similar mechanism possible in humans? Could this possible levamisole -> aminorex metabolic conversion have a recreational/synergestic effect in combination with cocaine?