Coca
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Coca is one of the many plants found in the family Erythroxylaceae. This particular plant contains cocaine alkaloids in its leaves, which is the basis for the drug cocaine, a very powerful stimulate.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythroxylum_coca] | Coca is one of the many plants found in the family Erythroxylaceae. This particular plant contains cocaine alkaloids in its leaves, which is the basis for the drug cocaine, a very powerful stimulate.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythroxylum_coca] | ||
| - | This particular drug is a powerfully reinforcing psychostimulant. It induces a sense of exhilaration in the person that’s using. Crack cocaine delivers an intensity of pleasure that is way outside of the normal human experience. You typically snort it, and once you intake it, it’s said to give you the most wonderful state of consciousness and the most intense feeling of living.[http://www.cocaine.org/] | + | This particular drug is a powerfully reinforcing psychostimulant. It induces a sense of exhilaration in the person that’s using. Crack cocaine delivers an intensity of pleasure that is way outside of the normal human experience. You typically snort,smoke,or inject it, and once you intake it, it’s said to give you the most wonderful state of consciousness and the most intense feeling of living.[http://www.cocaine.org/] It is powerfully addictive so it is very easily abused. People tend to use it because of the increased feeling of energy it gives them. The high of snorting can last up to 30 miutes as to the high you get from smoking and injecting only lasts from 5 to ten minutes. Because of the quickly fading high, to sustain the same feelings the user has to administer the drug repditivly in short periods of time and usually in large quantities. This is usually what leads to addition. |
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Introduction
Coca is a species of plants that come from the family Erythroxylaceae. You can usually find this plant in tropical and humid climate areas, such as its native country South America. It resembles a blackthorn bush, with reddish braches and bright vibrant green leaves. Along with the leaves the plant concists of flowers and bright red berries. Although it sounds like a normal plant, it's most known for containing the alkaloide cocaine, which is used for making the highly stimualant drug, cocaine. Cocaine is a drug that makes you experience everyday life like no one who hasn't used it before. This drug is extracted from dried up leaves of the coca plant. However, the leaves are also used for other purposes such as making tea.
Anatomy
The coca shrub is a wild plant that often grows to the height of twelve to eighteen feet. The stems diameter is about sixteen centimeters and its roots can go as far down as twelve feet into the soil. It has straight, reddish branches and whitish bark. The leaves of the plant are, however, the poisonous part. They are a vibrant green with smooth and slightly glossy surface. Varying in length and width, the leaves are oval shaped and more or less tapering at the extremities. The flowers are usually succeeded by bright red berries. [1]The flowers are small and are spread out in little clusters on short stalks. The corolla consists of five yellowish-white petals, the pistil has three carpels brought together to form a three chambered ovary, and the anthers are shaped to resemble a heart. [2]
Reproduction
Ecology
It is usually cultivated in the Andes, in the highlands, but also in the lower lands depending on the species. The species differ according to its location, altitude, and climate. In the late 19th and 20th century it was also tentatively transplanted to several different places for different experiments. [3]It grows best in any tropical humid climate areas, usually places like forest clearings and the wet sides of mountains. The wild species are often found in altitudes of three hundred to two thousand meters. Not only is it grown wildly but you can also grow it in your own home. [4]
Cocaine
Coca is one of the many plants found in the family Erythroxylaceae. This particular plant contains cocaine alkaloids in its leaves, which is the basis for the drug cocaine, a very powerful stimulate.[5] This particular drug is a powerfully reinforcing psychostimulant. It induces a sense of exhilaration in the person that’s using. Crack cocaine delivers an intensity of pleasure that is way outside of the normal human experience. You typically snort,smoke,or inject it, and once you intake it, it’s said to give you the most wonderful state of consciousness and the most intense feeling of living.[6] It is powerfully addictive so it is very easily abused. People tend to use it because of the increased feeling of energy it gives them. The high of snorting can last up to 30 miutes as to the high you get from smoking and injecting only lasts from 5 to ten minutes. Because of the quickly fading high, to sustain the same feelings the user has to administer the drug repditivly in short periods of time and usually in large quantities. This is usually what leads to addition.
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