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  1. Cocaine, often called coke, is a popular drug used by millions of people. Commonly the drug is snorted, which means consumed through the nose. Less popular is the consumption by smoking or injecting it into a vein.
  2. Cocaine is extremely addictive. There is a high risk of getting a psychological addiction due to its effect to the reward system of the brain. A physical addiction is not possible. The recreational benefits of smoked or sniffed cocaine lasts about thirty minutes to an hour. There's a strong feeling of euphoria, general well-being and motor activity. The heart rate as well as the blood pressure and body temperature gets increased. It is possible to overdose from cocaine but not very common. Only 2% of Germanys drug related deaths are caused from cocaine. Most cocaine related deaths are caused during the smuggling process. Mostly young women swallow condoms filled with cocaine to pass through custom controls. There is a high chance that the package will break inside their digestive track. If that happens, huge amounts of cocaine will be taken up and cause an overdose.
  3. But to understand the current global political situation concerning cocaine use and dealing we have to go back a couple of years to understand why and how the laws are as they are today. We are the USA in the year of 1886 in which Coca-Cola contained cocaine. It was a beloved drink among whites and eventually also among African-Americans. But the politicians were afraid the African-Americans would go crazy with cocaine and start vandalizing, so Coca-Cola was forced to remove cocaine from their drink and eventually cocaine was outlawed in 1914 by the Harrison Narcotics Act. In London at a similar time many feared cocaine would drive the soldiers in the currently raging WWI mad. So an immediate crackdown on cocaine was authorized and in 1920 the substance was declared criminal by the Dangerous Drugs Act. So wherever cocaine was the states were afraid of it and declared use and transport illegal. And yet the popularity of the drug among users increased and accordingly so did the illegal production. In 1975 a new era of drug-prevention had arrived when President Nixon of the US declared war on drugs. The tendency to fight drugs carried on until this day. There are some critical politicians and Portugal for example have declared all drugs legal, but more to that later. There is a clear tendency all over the world to fight drugs by outlawing them.
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