Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant most frequently used as a recreational drug. It is commonly snorted, inhaled as smoke, or dissolved and injected into a vein. Mental effects may include loss of contact with reality, an intense feeling of happiness, or agitation.
- Today, 2,500 Americans will try cocaine for the first time.
- Pope Leo XIII carried a hip flask full of wine infused with cocaine.
- 90% of US$ bills carry traces of Cocaine.
- 1 in 40 people in Scotland uses cocaine, the highest rate in the world.
- More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
- More Colombians die every year from American tobacco than Americans die from Colombian cocaine.
- Sigmund Freud recommended Cocaine as treatment for depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction.
- The price of cocaine went down by 51% in Europe since 1990.
- Cocaine can be purchased for about US$5 per gram in Colombia while in the U.S. it sells for at least US$100.
- Cupcakes can be as addictive as cocaine.
- Worldwide sales of cocaine earn more than Microsoft, McDonald's, and Kellogg's combined.
- Taking cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%.
- In the US today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.
- Taking cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%.
- In the US today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.
- Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. The same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT, and heroin.
- Refined sugar is more addictive than cocaine.
- 92% of public baby changing tables tested in the UK carried traces of cocaine.
- In London in 1916, Harrods was selling a kit described as "A Welcome Present for Friends at the Front" containing cocaine, morphine, syringes and needles.
- Crack cocaine is considered the most addictive form of cocaine.
- Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the 60,000-words-long "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" during a six-day cocaine high.
- Cocaine raises dopamine levels by 250%, compared to 100% from sex and 50% from food.
- Writer Stephen King was addicted to cocaine between 1979 and 1987 and used it to create a buzz to write.
- While shooting "The Blues Brothers" movie, they had a budget for cocaine.
- The Incas revered the coca plant as being sacred or magical.
- In the Netherlands, there are dozens of public facilities where you can bring recreational drugs including marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy to test if they are safe.
- Other names for Cocaine are nose candy, white lady, stardust and Charlie.
- While less than 5 percent of the world's population lives in the U.S., they consume almost 37% of the world's cocaine.
- "Under Pressure" was written by David Bowie and Queen during a 24-hour wine and cocaine marathon.
- In 1994, a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.
- Cocaine has a small number of accepted medical uses such as numbing and decreasing bleeding during nasal surgery.
- In 1961, the international Convention on Narcotic Drugs has required countries to make recreational use of cocaine a criminal offence.
- Steven Tyler, Aerosmith's frontman, claims that he spent at least US$5 million on cocaine in the 1970s and 80s.
- A gram of cocaine costs €207 in Australia but just €9 in Brazil.
- Between 14 and 21 million people use Cocaine each year.
- A cocaine addict's heart can beat for 25 minutes outside their body.
- Traces of nicotine and cocaine were found in Egyptian mummies.