Coca Cola Cocaine Essay

Cocaine is a drug that is commonly known as coke. It is used by inhaling into the body as smoke, by injecting into the veins, by rubbing it into their gums, or by snorting its powder. Cocaine is made from coca leaves that were first extracted by a German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke in 1855. Cocaine was broadly promoted for to cure depression sexual impotence when an Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud experimented on himself. He used cocaine regularly and kept promoting to everyone in his surroundings without knowing the consequences of the danger of cocaine. One of his friends ended up experiencing hallucinations and one of his patients died from high intake of cocaine.
In 1886, coca leaves was included as an ingredient in the soft drink Coca-Cola by the founder John Pemberton. The soft drink became popular as it gives stimulating and joyous effects. The use of cocaine increases in the society and the dangers of the drug started to become obvious. Coca-Cola company were then forced to remove the coca leaves ingredient from the soft drink in 1903.
Cocaine was popularly used by snorting in 1905 and within the duration of five years, there were many cases of nasal damage reported in the hospitals due to the use of cocaine. There were about 5000 deaths related to

It is a form of unscented, crystalline white powder and tastes bitter. It is also compressed into a form of pill. Crystal meth however, looks like shiny rocks that resemble an ice. Before methamphetamine, it was amphetamine that was first discovered by a Romanian chemist Lazăr Edeleanu in Germany in 1887. Methamphetamine was then synthesized from ephedrine by a Japanese chemist Nagai Nagoyoshi in 1893. Three decades later, methamphetamine hydrochloride was synthesized by pharmacologist Akira Ogata in