Facts about cocaine Bashny.Net

1. Alcohol + cocaine = death
The euphoria after the first track creates the illusion of omnipotence. It seems that everything is possible: for example lapping champagne, swinging her legs on the edge of the pool. But do not you dare do that!

Unlike other drugs, the effects of cocaine does not get off alcohol, but only intensified. In the liver, there is a new material - kokaetilen. It is pure poison. And if the usual overdose of cocaine can get out, the chances of an alcoholic mix of leaves.

2. One of the heroes of Forbes holds cocaine cartel
His nickname among the most pathetic drug lords - or Shorty El Chapo. In this sorry end: Joaquin Guzman Loher, head of the Mexican Sinaloa clan, for power, wealth and cruelty is unparalleled in the region.

The war unleashed against Joaquin other Mexican clans, has already claimed about 30 000 lives. Its content - the whole army of mercenaries, with modern small arms, and even home-made armored vehicles.

In 2009, the influential Forbes magazine introduced Shorty once in his two rankings: the most influential people in the world (41 seats) and the world's top billionaires (937 position).

3. It may prescribe a regular doctor
Yes, the district therapist able to give you some therapeutic doses - not street slops and clean as the first snow in the strawberry field ...

However, so far only in the US - and so criticized American medicine? Suffering from severe pain can easily give a white powder to the patient a little "tears" with ordinary painkillers.

However, to take medical Coke offered under the supervision of special institutions. It slightly spoils the thrill: it does not frolic around a girl in a bikini, and dying from cancer.

4. Dollars literally smeared with cocaine
Slightly less than half of the cash US dollars in the chemical analysis of the "light" of cocaine.

No, it does not mean that local drug addicts blow their noses into money. Just very quickly cocaine "infects" the bill: one banknote with 16 micrograms of the substance is able to mess potion thousands of other bills. For example, through the counting machine at the bank.

5. Pope stoked his wine
When Gioacchino Pecci became Pope Leo XIII, he was already 68 years old. The bishops did not expect that the new pontiff will stretch to the Holy See for a long time: it was even called "transit dad." However, Leo disgraced spiteful critics, having held the post of a record 35 years.

The secret of the main Catholic was simple: Dad poured aging special wine, which contained cocaine. Of course, in a modest, almost Christian doses.

The divine drink called Vin Mariani and was considered a "tonic wine". Then, in the nineteenth century is not particularly monitored the composition of the product: if only Dad liked!

It is interesting that on the basis of these wines (which, incidentally, were thrown not only cocaine, but also morphine) one John Pemberton invented the famous Coca-Cola. Initially, it was advertised as a way to get off the morphine and opium - by receiving more sparing doses contained in the drink. I wonder if they are Coca-Cola today?