Coca - Wikipedia
Coca leaf is the raw material for the manufacture of the drug cocaine, a powerful stimulant and anaesthetic extracted chemically from large quantities of coca leaves. Today, since it has mostly been replaced as a medical anaesthetic by synthetic analogues such as procaine , cocaine is best known as an illegal recreational drug .
How Cocaine Is Made | From Plant To Brick - Ark Behavioral Health
2022年3月3日 · Cocaine hydrochloride (cocaine) is an illicit drug derived from the leaves of the coca plants of South America. The leaves are processed with various harmful chemicals into a white powder, known as cocaine.
How Cocaine is Made: Origins, Additives, and Distribution
2022年8月16日 · Coca leaves are harvested, mixed with substances (e.g., nitric acid) and treaded to extract coca paste, and then coca paste is crystallized and purified to make cocaine. One coca leaf contains 1% of cocaine.
How Coca Leaves Get Made Into Coca Paste and Cocaine in …
2020年10月27日 · In makeshift labs across Colombia, farmers and technicians begin to turn coca leaves into coca paste, which eventually becomes cocaine sold all around the world.
Coca leaf: Myths and Reality - Transnational Institute
2014年8月5日 · The 'ready extractability' of cocaine from coca leaves is currently the major argument to justify the current illegal status of the leaf in the 1961 Single Convention. The cocaine alkaloid content in coca leaf ranges between 0,5 and 1,0 percent.
Coca Cultivation and Cocaine Processing: An Overview - Erowid
Two of the lesser understood aspects of the illicit cocaine traffic are the cultivation of the coca plant and the conversion of the coca leaf into cocaine hydrochloride (HCl).
Coca: The History and Medical Significance of an Ancient Andean ...
Coca is an indigenous plant of South America with numerous alkaloid components, the most well-known one of which is the psychoactive component, cocaine. Its leaves have been a staple in the Andean lifestyle for thousands of years. Strong interest in coca use has existed in the anthropological world for decades.
Coca | Medicinal Uses, Stimulant, Andean Cultures | Britannica
2024年11月11日 · Coca, (Erythroxylum coca), tropical shrub, of the family Erythroxylaceae, the leaves of which are the source of the drug cocaine. The plant, cultivated in Africa, northern South America, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan, grows about 2.4 metres (8 feet) tall.
How plants make cocaine - ScienceDaily
2012年6月6日 · Native tribes in South America have been cultivating coca and chewing its leaves for at least 8000 years for their stimulant and hunger-suppressing properties.
The Coca Leaf: A Historical Perspective on Its Use and Misuse
2024年10月21日 · Coca and Cocaine in the Modern Era. The traditional use of coca leaves by South American populations and the apparently beneficial effects of this plant very quickly aroused the interest of the entire European and non-European scientific community during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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