Cocaine has 'no future'

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Cocaine has 'no future'
June 3rd 2008
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Organised crime expert Misha Glenny has predicted that cocaine will become obsolete in the future, arguing that cheaper to manufacture synthetic substitutes with superior effects will soon replace the natural narcotic. “Production is slowly shifting from developing countries like Afghanistan and Colombia and moving into centers like Holland and Canada,” the author of ‘McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld’ told New American

His projection comes not long after Colombian vice-president, Francisco Santo issued a thinly veiled call for cocaine to be legalised at a London drug conference aimed to reduce coke consumption in the UK, attended by appropriately named Labour Minister Vernon Coaker. “In the case of Colombia and this country the discussion of legalisation is something that does not have the political will or the possibility of becoming a reality in the near future, so in Colombia, whereas a lot of illegal groups fund [themselves] through this kind of operation we have no other option in terms of combating it,” he complained. “The debate is open but we wish it had a louder sense in terms of how we can reduce consumption and production,” he added.

The debate happened as government data revealed that cocaine related hospital admissions increased by four hundred percent in the last 8 years in the UK, with ‘740 cocaine-induced health emergencies in 2006/07, compared with 161 in 1998/99’ (Metro).

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maybe they mean like noone uses Opium any more. or chews coca.


its the next stage.

i bet it's not as good.
 
drunken_etard said:
"moving into centers like Holland and Canada"

They must be talking about all the MDMA that gets made here. heh
And precursors for meth that come through here to.
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Precursors for meth? Ephedrine is illegal in the Netherlands.
 
I wish this were true; cocaine could be replaced with less cardiotoxic alternatives like Troparil, however cocaine is fairly potent in and of itself. (-)-2β-Carbomethoxy-3β-(4-chlorophenyl)tropane is a possibility, but when all is said and done the increase in potency is likely to be cancelled out by the dose scheduling for a longer acting compound (people will readminister every 5 hours instead of half hour) and manufacturing costs.

While synthetic amphetamine derivative methamphetamine reigns dominant in illegal chemistry circles in North America, the abuse and use of pharmaceutical amphetamine greatly outnumbers the use of methamphetamine. If amphetamine were to be made illegal I think it is likely that its illicit manufacture would replace methamphetamine because it lasts shorter and is easier on the body/mind. Shorter half-lives for stimulants are usually preferential to drug dealers (or pharmaceutical companies) because the user uses more faster and hence they get to sell more. Neither drug dealer nor pharmaceutical company would make much money at all if they sold drugs you only had to dose one mg of a week to receive the intended benefit.
 
discopupils said:
I refuse to listen to anyone that calls cocaine a narcotic.
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what, you mean cocaine doesn't put you to sleep? ;)

(its one of my pet peeves too)
 
^^^^^There are two definitions for the word "narcotic"

Narcotic:
1 a: a drug (as opium or morphine) that in moderate doses dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor, coma, or convulsions b: a drug (as marijuana or LSD) subject to restriction similar to that of addictive narcotics whether physiologically addictive and narcotic or not

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcotic
 
phrozen said:
I bet they said the same thing about morphine/heroin.
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Well.... heroin is an improvement on morphine and has largely replaced it.

Cocaine could stand to be improved, and synthetic method of production would make traffic easier.
 
nuke said:
Shorter half-lives for stimulants are usually preferential to drug dealers (or pharmaceutical companies) because the user uses more faster and hence they get to sell more. Neither drug dealer nor pharmaceutical company would make much money at all if they sold drugs you only had to dose one mg of a week to receive the intended benefit.
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Agreed & appreciated 10 fold. The Pharmaceutical Industry doesn't care about anyones health/health benefits. When governing bodies realize this ( or stop sticking their hands in their pockets), the world will be a healthier place. I forgot politicians are only good at talking.


Coca no es la droga!


In regards to afghanistan, and the poppy fields, well since science is able to alter morphine production to thebain only, you would think these would be given to the country to help with their economic issues.
And maybe the similar could be done to the Coca Plant, we are a global economy, and why not knock out the drug lords intelligently. Woops, pardon me. ;)
 
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