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Cocaine is an addiction, a pure drug that takes and takes only to give you yet a few minutes of pleasure. You laugh because people do it, how can they? They are just idiots you say. Those people struggle everyday with an addiction that they can't stop, taking everything you love from you and leaves you there in the world alone. Here is a report on what makes you want the drug, need it, and in the end leave you by yourself.

The drug called Cocaine can also be referred to another popular drug called crack. It's formula is C 17 H 21 NO 4 and the mole weight is 303.353 grams per mole. That's the chemical data. Cool, huh?

Crack is cocaine in its "impure freebase formis" a crystal tropane alkaloid that is taken by workers from the leaves of the coca plant. Tropane is a nitrogen organic compound and the chemical formula is C8H15N (which is Carbon 8 Hydrogen 15 and Nitrogen.) It is mainly known for a group of alkaloids which is a organic or natural organic compound that has nitrogen as the majors atom. Actually a lot of the alkaloids have a very bitter taste which when people do cocaine they have a lose of appitiette because when they "snort" the drug by breathing in by holding a straw or some type of object to easily inhale the chemical drug they burn the throat and everything that they eat has an extreme bitter taste which makes you dislike and not enjoy the food.

The Tropane alkaloids that cocaine has in it comes from various plant familes from all over the world here are some I'll name; Solanaceae (which you can find in the mandrake, henbane, deadly nightshade, Datura species) and the popluar Erythroxylaceae. Coca is the Erythroxylaceae leaf that has the tropane in it that causes some of the addictuion that you experience when you are on the drug, that makes you fien for more, because it starts to hold its power amoung your body, it slowly starts to take over.

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