This hands-on study (hands on pubic hair) suggests that the hunt for illicit drug use may be more interesting than is generally known: “Cocaine Contamination in Pubic Hair: Analysis of the Decontamination Method,” Guido Romano, Francesca Indorato, Giorgio Spadaro, Salvatore Barbera, and Nunziata Barbera, Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 4, no. 4, 2014, pp. […]
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Drug experiment of the day: Cocaine and Oreo Cookies
Today’s Drug Experiment of the Day happened at the University of Connecticut. Connecticut College News announces: In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, Professor Joseph Schroeder [pictured here] and his students found rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as […]
Atmospheric Cocaine: The Italian Experience
“Are You Inhaling Secondhand Coke?” asks Elizabeth Norton’s report in ScienceNow, going on to say; We’ve all seen those color-coded air-quality charts on the news—warnings about smog, ozone, and pollen. Now it may be time to add a new alert to the list: illegal drugs. Researchers have found that regions with greater cocaine and marijuana […]
Converting cocaine into sugar, tequila into diamonds
The Synthetic Remarks blog tells of a new study about how to convert sugar into cocaine: Cocaine from sugar If your local dealer insists on cutting your dope with sugar, you should be aware that there is a fix for it now. Specifically, if the sugar is pure D-ribose and the desired dope is (—)-cocaine, which is […]