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Cocaine
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Why use ? This is a question that perplexes many doctors of medicine and psychology. As an ex user, I feel that this topic is one that I have a personal interest in. I will start by defining what is. is a colorless or white crystalline powder extracted from coca leaves, occasionally used in m ....
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.... using the leaves because they believed it was a barrier to conversion to Christianity. Later they paid the Indians with the leaves. It was discovered that the leaves reduced mountain sickness symptoms and they could barely work without them. So it came to be cultivated by the Catholic Church. Returning Spanish conquistadors introduced it to Europe and it was considered an “elixir of life”. In 1862, Albert Niemann extracted purified from a coca base from the coca leaves. In the 1880’s and .... |
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