Okay, its time for my statement about the solubility of solid substances in vapors, particular moving, hot vapors, that is probably going to piss PhreeX off.
Although cocaine cannot be 'smoked' in the normal sense... its burning point (under normal conditions and when in the presence of oxygen) is lower than its vaporization point... there IS an abnormal sense.
In this case, I imagine most of the cocain was burnt, and the effects were placebo.
But lets look at another case.
The inside of a ciggarette paper is coated with very fine cocaine. Tobacco is put into the paper. And it is smoked.
As the flame begins moving down the cig, any cocaine it touches is burnt and destroyed.
But lets looka t the cocain closer to the bottom... the part that hasn't seen flame yet. Moving over it, is a bunch of hot, churning, tobacco smoke.
You see... it hasn't reached its vaporization or burning point yet... (the points where ALL of its molecular bonds break down at a rapid rate), but it has reached a point where *some* of the molecular bonds, the 'stickiness' holding the individual molecules to each other, are beginning to be sacrificed!!!! Kind of like how even when water hasn't reached its vaporization point, it still has a tendency to 'lose' some molecules off the top of it to the atmosphere, because it loses certain bonds on occasion.
With cocaine, as those bonds are sacrificed, many extremely small pieces of cocaine are formed, a microscopic powder.
And as this tobacco smoke moves over that microscopic powder, some quantity of it is detached from the other molecules (by the 'wind'), dissolved, and carried with the smoke to the lungs of the inhaler.
Such is the tendency of solids to break down and be carried away in hot moving smoke, without vaporizing or burning.
Of course, even under the most ideallic circumstances, it would be a pain in the ass and you would lose most of the coke, but you can get minor effects if you do it the right way and use enough coke.
[This message has been edited by Timerare (edited 03 August 2001).]