It's dangerous, shortens your life, and ruins your relationship. Cocaine is definitely not your friend.
There is a very common notion among people across the world that addictive drugs are substances that make people feel drunk and sleepy, and interrupt their natural senses. Though this may be true especially for alcohol, this simply is not the case for cocaine, a very dangerous drug commonly used.
Cocaine is a white powder that comes from the coca plant grown in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. Coca plants were initially reserved for use by Inca royalty. The rest of the population eventually used coca plant leaves for mystical, religious, social, and medical purposes. They exploited its stimulant properties to ward off fatigue and hunger, enhance endurance, and to promote a sense of well-being.
The invading Spanish forced the Incan people to work hard in the fields. But the Spanish quickly learned that their captives could barely do work in the fields without chewing on the coca leaf (then referred to as the "gift of the gods"). Eventually the coca leaves were harvested and distributed to the Incan workers three or four times per day.
With the use of this magical plant, the Incans were able to do much productive work. Soon the use of cocaine became so common that the leaves were used as money; distances were measured by how far one could travel before having to stop and replenish the leaves. Because of the potent energizing effects of cocaine, many people in the late nineteenth century took cocaine.
Thousands of physicians recommended its use for the treatment of depression and other psychiatric conditions. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, became so enamored by the effects of cocaine that he wrote a series of scientific papers praising cocaine's potential to cure depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction. Dr. Freud eventually died while severely addicted to the dangerous substance.
Those who produced wine soon discovered the energizing effects of cocaine. Wine with cocaine added was sold with the claim as being able to "strengthen, refresh, and restore vital forces." In 1885 the Parke-Davis Company, still a large pharmaceutical company today, advertised cocaine as being able to "take the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent, and render the sufferer insensitive to pain."
Small amounts of cocaine were added to Coca-Cola until around 1902, when it was quietly removed because of pressure from the American government. Around this time skepticism replaced the excitement for cocaine when documented reports of fatal cocaine poisoning, alarming mental disturbances, and cocaine addiction started to become evident.
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