Cocaine the Legend About Coca Leaves and Cocaine
by Jorge Hurtado Gumucio
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Coca Leaf: Anthropological and Social Issues
Chapter 2 The Coca Leaves: Scientific Aspects Dispensius form Are there compensating elements in coca leaves? Chewing as an automatic and practical regulator or the maximum therapeutic dose
Chapter 3 Cocaine Chlorhydrate: Scientific aspects Cocaine as stimulant Administration forms Synthetic anesthetics and their commercial success as psychotropic or stimulant substances
Chapter 4 The Industrialization of Coca in the United States
The legal cocaine club The war against the traffic of narcotics: a protection of the monopoly of legal cocaine? Narco-traffic: The illegal competition to Coca-Cola What solutions have been set forth?
Chapter 5 Drug Dependence Cocaine Chlorhydrate Usage Trip experiences Cocaine chlorhydrate: General conclusions Some social aspects on cocaine crystal use Cocaine sulfate (pasta) Forms of administration Effects of pasta at low doses Effects of pasta at high doses The pasta's paranoid syndrome Collective paranoia Controlled paranoia Trip experiences Mechanism of the action of pasta Hypothalamus pleasure center Monkeys addicted to electrons Relapse mechanism Coca leaf chewing treatment General conclusions Statistics Tables
Chapter 6 Table summary, Explanatory Notes and Conclusions
