Cocaine

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So as a side excursion from the trek to Cuidad Perdida you can go and visit a cocaine factory.
Now I'm thinking ok its an old and busted factory no longer working. Wrong!!!
Its a real, live operational place they make cocaine.
Well but its not much of a factory, its really just a 15x20' hut in the jungle.
Every three months they make 3 kilos of coke.

What is really interesting is that Cocaine is a natural substance in the coco plant leaves but its a chemists wet dream to get it into your nose.

The coco leaves grow back every 3 months, so every 3 months they go out and strip the tree of its leaves. It takes like 10 kilos of leaves for 1 kilo of pure coke. The leaves are then laid on the floor where the locals come and stamp on them until they are a brown crushed powder.

This powder is then mixed with lime and salt and put in a barrell, where gasoline is added.
The gasoline is then drained and with it comes the cocaine. Now I don't really remember all the next steps but you mix it with different chemicals, each one designed to remove the last one.
Chemicals like Sulphuric acid, Caustic Soda, and some others that aren't as bad. There are some titration, mixing and draining steps.
When you are done you have a paste that you can smoke but not snort.
Now you mix that with Acetone and let it dry and you have cocaine in nose form.

Other pieces of interest:
The guy doing this is not allowed to use coke... if he does he gets shot.
If he sells coke to anyone that doesn't have the proper paperwork from the paramilitary then he gets shot as does the buyer.
The official police look for the cocaine factories from the air not on foot so he feels pretty safe and has been making coke for 18 years.

Oh and in case you are curious. My guess is cocain is the indians fault (just kidding). But they chew the leaves mixed with snail dust (calcium) to be able to hike for days without getting tired.

Well that is how they make cocaine
couple of pics from the tour

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Comments

[Juliette]

FREAKIN' AMAZING...........man......

[KT]

I was never interested in cocaine, but your description of the process has put me off forever. Sounds like a cool adventure.

[brian]

NO COMMENT

[David]

Wow
Well...That was interesting. I am suprised they let you in that close.

[Grimey boy]

this is tha shit nicca
i never knew how coke was made intil i read this. u need to tell more aboout how it is made. this is very interesing.

[Marilyn]

Very Interesting
Very interesting! I thought cocaine was made from the sugars of the coco plant. Knew there were some other additives, but didn't know what.

[MN Dave]

Wow
I was cleaning up the inbox and stumbled upon "the blog." After touring around where you have been, I saw this. Wow. Very wow. I'll stick to the booze as its a safer drug. And, fingers crossed, I won't get shot for drinking any I make.

[lizzard]

HOLY COW!!!

[Adam Motes]

Question?
Is it like the Coors Tour where you get a sample at the end? And where's my t-shirt that says Farrell went to a Cocaine Factory and all I got was this lousy nose bleed?

[geeked up]

Can i come next time :)

[geeked up]

Way cool man , was it cheaper there i can i come

[Danne the dog]

????
i´m not so shore if your info is real, id ont think is so easy as u put it, u missed a lots of moments,

[anonymous]

sdgfasfasfasfas

[spooky]

the 411
wuz up my nigga i need to know all the exact steps to make cokain step by step inch by inch you feel me

[jeanette]

cocain
wow wish i could be were they make this shit i would not come bac , i would be flyin with the birds kidda wow cool info love it , might try and buy a coco plant

[Bree]

woo
i love cocaine

[FBI]

directions please!
could u please direct us to some coco plants

[U wish U were Me]

Had an idea, now it's a reality!!
Thats pretty cool,but at the same time it's pretty disturbing. What are we doing to are selves?????

[tHE ONE]

heard through the grappe vine
its just right,i mean how could this be,right?just like pot,keep up the good work.

[xz]

coke
wow before this i just took a cocaine test to check if i was addicted and its turned out positive :( im gonna DIE!

[anonymous]

wattt is wrong with u

[john]

acetont sniffing just aint cool

[anonymous]

oh man
i've done my expermenting with the wondeful world of white girl...aka cocaine..its good. but a waste for how expensive it is. i put it off for a while.. and after ready this..its exctied my nose all over agian :D

[ramos]

Nice work..
But Acetone is used to remove artificial nails...

[Jennifer M.]

DAMN!!!
dude, this is part whack-o, part crazy genious. ur like that jeckle, hide man. im an experimenting chemist (lol) but have never tried this. ill prolly stick with my whiskey and mj, but who knows? i might try this... koodos man!!

[Jennifer M.]

dude
P.S: teach ur readers how to prperly spell. or just add spell check.. hmm. where can i get a coca plant in south eastern michigan?? :)

[helen]

wow no..
there iz no info

[Jayson]

i love it
i would love to go and see that whats do i have to do to go there

[hah]

hmm
COCAINE... FAST , SHARP CASH.. Anyway, my question is, does COCA grow anywhere in the world? And where can one find the leave to create a plantation??>>

[jul]

???
It takes lots more than 10 kilos of leafs to ,ake 1 kilo of cocaine, approx 300k.

[me]

nice
you must have done the best coke on the world... damn I cant wait to travel there