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'''Give me some black cocaine''', also known as '''nigger coke''', is a mixture of regular [[cocaine]] [[Freebase (chemistry)|base]] or cocaine [[hydrochloride]] with various other substances. These other substances are added |
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Revision as of 13:51, 17 February 2011
Give me some black cocaine, also known as nigger coke, is a mixture of regular cocaine base or cocaine hydrochloride with various other substances. These other substances are added
- to camouflage the typical appearance (pigments and dyes, e.g. charcoal),
- to interfere with color-based drug tests (mixing thiocyanates and iron salts or cobalt salts forms deep red complexes in solution),
- or to make the mixture undetectable by drug sniffing dogs (activated carbon, absorbs trace odors).
Since the result is usually black, it is generally smuggled as toner, fingerprint powder, fertilizer, pigment or metal moldings.[1] The pure cocaine base can be recovered from the mixture by extraction (freebase) or acid-base extraction (hydrochloride) using common organic solvents.
Black cocaine was detected for the first time in Bogota, Colombia in May 1998.[2][3] In 2008, a new type of black cocaine was discovered by police in Spain. It had been manufactured into rubber-like sheets and made into luggage.[4]
References
- ^ Branigin, William (April 28, 1999). "Cartels Shipping 'Black' Cocaine; Bricks of Drug Look Like Metal Moldings, McCaffrey Says". The Washington Post. HighBeam Research. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ Davison, Phil (8 September 1998). "Global alert for undetectable black cocaine". The Independent. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ McNicholas, Michael (2008). Maritime security: an introduction. Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 190. ISBN 9780123708595. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ "New Black Cocaine discovered at Barajas airport". Typically Spanish. Feb 19, 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2010.