DivisK4high247 said:
Since a majority of cocaine comes through Mexico nowdays and the Mexicans often cut cocaine with speed of some type, powder meth, amphetamines of some type, that will give a speedy high to the coke, even a 5% cut with meth or amphetamines will make a speedy high and will turn 100 kilograms into 105 kilograms easy..
Amphetamines aren't usually used as a cut anymore, because it's worth a lot, in some areas it's worth more than coke. Occasionally you'll get a dumb dealer who'll through a couple shards in to mask the shitty coke but only making it shittier, but not as often. In fact, there's a type of coke called lavada which may be coke purified in Mexico, sometime with trace flavoring added.
I think the edgy, speed cuts are from the levamisole, caffeine, other 'caines, overoxidized cocaine, and secondary alkaloid impurities. All these together ruin the coke high.
Like Le Junk and others have said, real cocaine from the 70's and 80's(back when it was cool) was like a totally different drug. Think about it, Grandmaster Melle Mel in "White Lines(Don't Don't do it)" said it's glistening white crystals. How often do you see coke crystals now?
Back then, the coke cooks were more knowledgeable, following the correct extraction, purification, and crystallization procedure. They used quality coca with a low speedy alkaloid content. They had access to pure solvents and reagents.
Later ether, acetone, hydrogen chloride and potassium permanganate were controlled in the US and banned in much of South America. They switched to evermore inferior crystallization solvents. Each replacement would get banned. Now since even gasoline is controlled, they uses whatever paint thinner or commercial solvent mixture they can find. It's used over and over, no purifying. Also they started skimping on the oxidation process that give purer cocaine, sometimes using inferior replacements for permanganates, if that.
Now there's this levamisole bullshit. Why do they put that nasty shit in? Could it be a conspiracy by the US to mix levamisole in with the defoliant for synergy with the herbicide and to taint the coke down the line? Or are the Colombian gangsters just fucking dumbasses? If they would make real coke they'd have several-fold more customers. But no, lets put some bullshit in it to make an extra few thousand dollars, at the expense of getting millions of new and old customers8).
I kind of hoped that since production of coca has shifted more towards Peru and Bolivia, where Bolivia uses the right method and Peru uses one almost as good, the quality would go up. But unfortunately it seems they just send it to Colombia for processing and smuggling.
Coke never went away here. It can be strong, but it's just not the same as pre-levamisole fishscale. Don't think it will ever go away like Quaalude unless they launch an effective genocide campaign against coca. Might drop down a lot like PCP did, disappear like in the 1930's, no.
