Cocaine paste

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'''Coca paste''' ('''paco''', '''basuco''', '''oxi''', '''pasta''') is a crude [[extract]] of the [[coca]] leaf which contains 40% to 91% [[cocaine freebase]] along with companion [[coca alkaloids]] and varying quantities of [[benzoic acid]], [[methanol]], and [[kerosene]]. In South America, coca paste, also known as cocaine base and, therefore, often confused with cocaine sulfate in North America, is relatively inexpensive and is widely used by low-income consumers. The coca paste is smoked in tobacco or cannabis cigarettes and use has become widespread in several Latin American countries. Traditionally, coca paste has been relatively abundant in South American countries such as Colombia where it is processed into [[cocaine hydrochloride]] ("street cocaine") for distribution to the rest of the world.<ref name="a">{{citation | editor1=Nicholas J. Kozel | editor2=Edgar H. Adams | author=Ronald K. Siegel | author-link=Ronald K. Siegel | contribution=New Patterns of Cocaine Use: Changing Doses and Routes | title=Cocaine Use in America: Epidemiologic and Clinical Perspectives | series=NIDA Research Monograph | volume=61 | year=1985 | publisher=U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services | pages=204–222 | url=http://archives.drugabuse.gov/pdf/monographs/61.pdf | access-date=2016-04-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009021412/http://archives.drugabuse.gov/pdf/monographs/61.pdf | archive-date=2016-10-09 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The caustic reactions associated with the local application of coca paste prevents its use by oral, intranasal, mucosal, intramuscular, intravenous or subcutaneous routes. Coca paste can only be smoked when combined with a combustible material such as tobacco or cannabis.<ref name="f">{{citation | editor=A. Arif | title=Adverse health consequences of cocaine abuse | publisher=World Health Organization | year=1987 | url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/37270/1/9241561076.pdf}}</ref>

'''Coca paste''' ('''paco''', '''basuco''', '''oxi''', '''pasta''') is a crude [[extract]] of the [[coca]] leaf which contains 40% to 91% [[cocaine freebase]] along with companion [[coca alkaloids]] and varying quantities of [[benzoic acid]], [[methanol]], [[kerosene]], and other extraction chemicals. In South America, coca paste, also known as cocaine base and, therefore, often confused with cocaine sulfate in North America, is relatively inexpensive and is widely used by low-income consumers. The coca paste is smoked in tobacco or cannabis cigarettes and use has become widespread in several Latin American countries. Traditionally, coca paste has been relatively abundant in South American countries such as Colombia where it is processed into [[cocaine hydrochloride]] ("street cocaine") for distribution to the rest of the world.<ref name="a">{{citation | editor1=Nicholas J. Kozel | editor2=Edgar H. Adams | author=Ronald K. Siegel | author-link=Ronald K. Siegel | contribution=New Patterns of Cocaine Use: Changing Doses and Routes | title=Cocaine Use in America: Epidemiologic and Clinical Perspectives | series=NIDA Research Monograph | volume=61 | year=1985 | publisher=U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services | pages=204–222 | url=http://archives.drugabuse.gov/pdf/monographs/61.pdf | access-date=2016-04-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009021412/http://archives.drugabuse.gov/pdf/monographs/61.pdf | archive-date=2016-10-09 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The caustic reactions associated with the local application of coca paste prevents its use by oral, intranasal, mucosal, intramuscular, intravenous or subcutaneous routes. Coca paste can only be smoked when combined with a combustible material such as tobacco or cannabis.<ref name="f">{{citation | editor=A. Arif | title=Adverse health consequences of cocaine abuse | publisher=World Health Organization | year=1987 | url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/37270/1/9241561076.pdf}}</ref>

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