Cocaine
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Cocaine
BY: Elizabeth Martinez, Curtyana Randall, Leyla Zuno
agenda
- WHAT IS COCAINE
- FIRST USED
- WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS
- STREET NAMES
- HISTORY
WHAT IS COCAINE?
Cocaine is addictive drug derived from Coca leaves or prepared synthetically,used as an illegal stimulant or sometimes medically as a local anesthetic.
Photo by Marco Leone [Deepboy]
WHEn COCAINE WAS FIRST USED?
- COCAINE WAS FIRST USED BY PERUVIAN INDIANS
- HELP WITH BREATHING THE THIN AIR ON THE MOUNTAINS
- THESE PERUVIAN INDIANS WOULD CHEW THE COCA LEAVES
ways to be used
- SNORTED
- INJECTED
- CHEWED
- EATEN
effects of each method
- Snort Cocaine- your body becomes numb and accelerates.
- Injecting Cocaine- high risk of stroke.
- Eat Cocaine- you won't get high but you will pee on yourself.
- Chew Cocaine- stuck on the inside of cheeks.
Photo by Nick Fuentes
what are the effects?
- Increased risk of Stroke
- Lethargy (laziness)
- Asthma
- Throat soreness
- Cancer (pancreas,lungs,throat)
STREET NAMES
- CRACK
- FLAKES
- SNOW WHITE
- FOO-FOO
- THE SHIT
What Happened?
People started noticing side effects that would come with this drug, so in the year of 1914 it became illegal.
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WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE STILL DO THIS DRUG?
( I couldn't find the exact reason on the internet for why people still do drugs. All I found were jokes about it.)
I think people still do drugs because of the effect it gives them.
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