Why is cocaine bad for you, but raw, natural coca leaf is not?
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Cocaine is a highly concentrated form of coca leaves. In fact, the cocaine alkaloid thats ends up as a powder is about 0.5-1% of a coca leaf. You really wouldn’t be able to consume enough leaves to have anything other than a mild stimulant effect, like coffee.
But coffee is a decent example. The average cup of coffee has about 100mg of caffeine. Most OTC caffeine supplements have 100mg each. But if you took 2000mg (2gm) of caffeine at once, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Cocaine is the same. You’re getting GRAMS of purified, crystallized cocaine dumped into your system at once.
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