This is a fascinating video, created by a reporter living in Colombia named Matthew Bristow, documenting the process that cocaine goes through from the point at which it is a plant growing in the ground until it is refined enough to actually use as a drug.
They stop just short of the point that it gets sold to a drug trafficker or guerrilla – who further refine the drug.
I feel really bad for the guys in the video as they probably never even heard of the Internet, and as soon as the drug lords find out about the video they’ll be killed for sure. Heck, I can’t even believe that Matthew Bristow is still alive.
Matthew has a blog which documents tons of information about the Colombian drug wars. Much of it is sad, but also quite enlightening.
Here is another video demonstrating a vastly different method of making the cocaine:
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i recently tried cocaine and didn’t find it to be a horrible drug! The first time I did it I was very careful, i didn’t want to O.D. I found that I was able to function as I normally do! I actually liked it! It gave me a tremendous amount of energy and I completed so many tasks, that without cocaine, it would have taken me weeks to attempt doing them. REALLY…. I feel that as long as we don’t abuse the drug, we should be allowed to do whatever we want with it!
I know what Cocaine did to my son, he wasted away. He tried very hard to get awayfrom this horrible drug, but in the end a bullet got him because he owed money.
So i ask you this.. is cocaine worth it? what it does to yourself, your family, your friends, your job.
the answer is hell no.
if you take cocaine, seek out help! and turn in all the drug dealers
Its all about self control. The fact that drugs are illegal demonizes them, attributes false propaganda about them & creates a huge misconception. Children are educated in the wrong way with DARE when what should be taught is safely using drugs if you are going to at all instead of spreading lies like DARE does. Also most dont understand that cocaine heroin etc. were synthesized by pharmaceutical companies (bayer being one) and are much safer drugs than ones on the market today (Listen to a commercial and all the side effects).
Im sorry about your son but dont demonize a drug just because its specifically impacting you. Alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than cocaine.
To see these poor farmers live below the poverty level to supply us with a drug that is over priced while farmers are given barely enough to provide 1 meal a day in addition to being sprayed with poison pesticides every day is the problem. Its the drug war that is the problem; same with alcohol. We need a regulated market.
Yes it’s worth it. Your son got the bullet in the head because it’s not regulated! Open up your eyes!!! End the war on drugs; use, OD and gang war/killings will go way down. God I hate stupid drivel.
ok i know how to make this but the problem is the coco plant you can order seeds online and have them imported from canda completly legeal but growing them is harder then anything i have ever tried they died after about 3 weeks what i want to know is is there anything i can use as a substitute for the plant extract itself
this looks like some backwoods hillbilly method
ive researched this myself bfor just out of curiosity how they make a green plant into white powder and have never heard of using gas
also in reply to babygirl
be real thats how it gets you coke plays with your mind so bad and gets you to think its not a bad thing and make you want more and more and more
ive never known anyone that’s only done it once or was able to be “careful” with it forever
well just in ur response to babygirl…i have experienced with cocaine and with marijuna for many years under diffrent circumstances ….and i did not care for it at all, i did use it for many diffrent reasons and diffrent times in my life and like her it did seem like it helped me get thru whatever i needed to do, and i never did get addicted or seem like i wanted more, i used it when i wanted and when i didnt , i didnt, and till this day , i havent used, i havent since i was like 23 , 24 and now i am 37! i think its all in how you take control of ur needs, dont let them take control of you!
I am a wife of a man for 33 years and just learned after a motorcycle wreck that he had had a few occasions to do (cocaine) and being a Harley man I am assuming this was the thing to do in the crowd and I had no clue and I felt so stupid I wanted to die. Now I have to stay home 34 -7 and feed him and dath him wipe his bottom. I am a slave for the choices he made. and i do not get it. Where are the damn fools that gave it to him? HELLO it is just me. I do not get it!!! Can some one help me understand??? Cricket
Don’t drink and ride
I am a wife of a man for 33 years and up until the time he wrecked a police special I did not find out that he had been using (cocaine) for years and I did not know. Am I to Be angry or just take care of him as if all is good OR WHAT?????????????????????? And yes i do love him but I do not like being lied to. FEED BACK WOULD VERY NICE AND BE HELPFUL. THANKS SO MUCH CRICKET
I was a coco dealer,i did ok out of it,but i lost the biggest deal,’myself ‘am so asham of myself 4doing coco,sumtime it was how i would treat my girlfriend or friend,it was out of order…sorry……!
Dear Cricket, you asked for feedback:
1. While it is the duty of a spouse to honor marriage vows, it seems a rare thing now and so is commendable. Hang in there.
2. I’d feel safer doing a line than riding a motorcycle.
3. How are you doing these days? Hope you are well.
LOL
he bought two houses in Lima after sellin 2 tons
Thats my dream now
thanks
PD: LOOK AT THAT ROCK, MAN!!!
Unto who much is given, much is expected. Peter Carlos Hinds.
i find it amusing that the majority blame drugs as the issue… people forget how long these drugs have been around and been utilised in a safe and harm free enviroment. people blame drugs.. they are not the problem.. the problem is society and theyre constant pursuit to ‘quick fix’ everything. the only reason drug addictions arise is from severe emotional disorders, people self medicating for mental disease.
we are so smart. We can do all that plant processing to make money then what. Why do we exist. I really believe that the white man is the devil. That make the billions without doing none of this and latinos, blacks, others struggle