Drug info - Three hospitalised after using new liquid form of cocaine

[Abrad]

Liquid cocaine???
www.breakingnews.ie
Experts are warning about a new liquid form of cocaine after three people were hospitalised suffering from the effects of the drug.

All three were taken to Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda and one was treated in the intensive care unit after overdosing on the drug.

It appears to be the first recorded use of liquid cocaine in the country.

Gardaí say that small quantities of the drug are being seized from time to time.

Director of Europe against Drugs Grainne Kenny said: It speeds up the heart to such a rate you get heart attacks, you get strokes, your blood vessels just explode.

"It causes paranoia, which causes great violence, which we see daily now on the streets, and of course violence in the home that we don't hear about," she said.

[Alicia]

liquid cocaine? sounds new to swia..

[Benga]

swim thinks they might be talking about I.V. cocaine, which is indeed in a solution. went for a stroll on the related anti-drug website, there's nothing on the subject...
It might also be a shipment of medical cocaine solution ( such as Bonnain's solution, or ready to I.V. solutions which are used in eye / sinus surgeries) stolen from some hospital.

another option is that it's actually an oily freebase form ( ie not crack)


unless it's related to a product in liquid form for smuggling which somehow made it to the streets without being reprocessed...

similar to what was seized in this operation :


3,800 Gallons Of Liquid Cocaine Seized From Vessel

By ELAINE SILVESTRINI The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 15, 2007


http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBD5JQPP1F.html
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TAMPA - The investigators of "Operation Panama Express" have seized an unprecedented shipment of 3,800 gallons of cocaine in liquid form aboard an Ecuadorian fishing vessel in the Eastern Pacific.

The milky-white syrup was in the fish hold of a vessel named the Emperador that was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard on April 25, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph K. Ruddy, who oversees the Tampa-based international investigation of Colombian drug trafficking.

Ruddy said authorities have seen liquid cocaine before, but always in smaller quantities - smuggled in rum bottles, for instance. This, he said, was the largest seizure of the liquid form of cocaine by far. He said the substance has a strong odor similar to ammonia.

Ruddy said he did not know the purpose behind the liquid form, other than possibly to avoid detection by law enforcement. A chemist calculated that a gallon of the substance would make roughly 2 kilograms of powdered cocaine. Ruddy said authorities think the liquid was to have been processed into powder in Mexico before being shipped to the United States or another country.

The crew consisted of 16 Ecuadorians and one Colombian, Ruddy said. Ecuador will prosecute its citizens, and the Colombian, Javier Perdomo-Reyes, will be tried in Tampa.

Operation Panama Express has more than 80 agents and analysts working from Tampa to recruit and develop sources of information about maritime cocaine trafficking. The agents come from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Coast Guard and sheriff's deputies from Hillsborough, Pinellas and Sarasota counties.

Ruddy said that after the Coast Guard intercepted the fishing vessel, it had to haul it back to Ecuador because it had no other way to move the liquid cargo. In Ecuador, a chemist tested the substance while the Colombian crew member was detained aboard a U.S. Navy ship and the others were held in Ecuador. Once the tests were completed, authorities decided to bring drug trafficking charges.
Boldness And Recklessness

Two analysts who track cocaine policy and interdictions said the large liquid cocaine seizure was novel.

"This is new to me," said Adam Isaacson, senior associate at the Center for International Policy's Colombia Program. He said carrying that much vile-smelling liquid "seems like a bad plan," given that vessels traveling in that area have a good chance of being boarded by law enforcement.

John Walsh, senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, said traffickers seem to be displaying a "mixture between boldness and recklessness. … One of the implications of that boldness bordering on recklessness seems to be there's plenty of cocaine in production in Columbia and other source countries."

Traffickers seem willing to risk losing large loads of cocaine, he said, which could mean there is plenty in production and that U.S. cocaine eradication efforts are having minimal effect.

As further evidence of that, Walsh noted that estimates of the price and purity of cocaine available on U.S. streets are heading in the wrong direction. The price, he said, is historically low and the purity is high. "Those are indicators of availability," he said.
March 18 Seizure

At the same time Perdomo appeared in U.S. District Court on Monday, two Mexican men Ruddy said were behind a record-breaking load of 21 tons of cocaine also had a court appearance. That load was seized March 18 aboard the freighter Gatun off the coast of Panama. It was a record for the Coast Guard.

Ruddy said the two - Jesus Ernesto Mondragon-Garcia and Jose Alonzo Nunez-Gutierrez - were arrested in Panama as they attempted to leave the country after the cocaine was loaded onto the Gatun within a day before the ship was intercepted.

The two defendants told U.S. Magistrate Mary Scriven they have college degrees. Mondragon said he has a master's degree, and Nunez said he has a bachelor's.

Ruddy said one or both of the men have said they worked as an attorney. He said the two were the organizers of the Gatun load, but he declined to characterize them further or provide other details.


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[Nagognog2]

That's what Sigmuend Frued did, and did to his patients, was a 7% solution of cocaine hydrochloride - I.V. One c.c was 70mg. and away they went! Frued was convinced it was the cure for nuerosis. Umm...not. Bad idea.

But it was curable. With a depresssion similar to amphetamines to follow cold-turkey.

History repeats itself.

[dbjay417]

some times SWIM likes SWIMs coke in liquid form. Salene is really no different from water, but I'm still no fan of butting caustic acids directly into my blood stream. SWIM just finds that its easier down the sinuses and stretches a lot further in a liquid solution applied to the sinus throat and tongue.

SWIM had some yayo that was ruined by moisture about two weeks ago. Almost a whole ball. SWIM dissolved it in an ounce of water and poured it into a dropper. Two or three drops gives swim the effect of a decent sized line.

SWIM suspects people are just jerks and dont realize that they are ingesting poison, it may be fun, but one must excersize caution. A little common sense and a lil knowledge goes a long way. SWIMS been comming herwe since swim started doing coke, and some of the information swim has found here is priceless, its gone a long way in preventing SWIM from being wreckless, careless, and neglegent in SWIMs illegal drug use.

[Benga]

it is true that dissolving cocaine into a solution is actually less harsh on the nose, discreet and quite effective. Saline or distilled water, possibily with a drop or two of grain alcohol. It's also called "the liquid lady" ( also see http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2661)
however swim thinks the article was refering to something else, which is still a little mysterious.

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Thanks for the tip :)