Cocaine Facts – 65 Totally Insane Facts about Cocaine

Facts on Cocaine

Cocaine has few medical benefits such as numbing and decreasing bleeding during nasal surgery.

Dopamine levels are raised by 250% from cocaine, compared to 100% from sex and 50% from food.

The International Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has required countries to make recreational use of cocaine a crime, since 1961.

Crack cocaine often contains adulterants, some of which can be highly toxic.

Falling in love produces the same high as taking cocaine.

The word “coca” comes from the work “khoka” meaning “the tree” in Ayamara language. This language is used by people who live in Andes of Bolivia and Peru.

Snow White and the seven dwarfs was actually based upon cocaine, the 7 dwarfs were each side effects from the drug.

Worldwide, cocaine usage has been reported in more than two thirds of all countries.

Escobar’s Medellin cartel was responsible for 80% of the cocaine that was imported by U.S. in the 1980’s.

Cocaine drug abuse causes 3 times more deaths than any other illegal drug.