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> cocaine is odorless until its fermented in a human environment What does this even mean?
by jey 8y ago
> cocaine is odorless until its fermented in a human environment
What does this even mean?
- delecti 8y agoFrom context it seems to mean that cocaine itself isn't detectable, but that a person who has consumed cocaine can be detectable by odor. I can't find anything backing that up though.
- rconti 8y agoand I don't see how drug dogs trained this way would help detect cocaine in, say, a suitcase, vs a person who had used cocaine but was carrying none with them.
- adrusi 8y agoThat's how i read it at first, but it could also be that cocaine goes through fermentation during it's extraction, and that if that's done near human settlements, air pollution contaminates the final product, making it detectable.
- rhombocombus 8y agoit sounds like unsubstantiated nonsense. Cocaine, like many chemicals, has a particular odor.
- sp332 8y ago-
- 8_hours_ago 8y agoOnly if it is ingested.
- marshray 8y agoI'd love to see a dog detect the odor of an undoped polycrystalline silicon wafer.
- blattimwind 8y agoGround silicon wafer smells like blood.
- philipkglass 8y agoCocaine hydrochloride's vapor pressure is negligible, AFAIK. I always thought that the "smell of cocaine" is actually the smell of solvent traces or other impurities left from typical production routes.
- freedomben 8y agoMany ingested foods go through a fermentation process inside the human body. It's gross to think about. Here's a case where it was so bad that the man actually had a BAC high enough to get a DUI: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jeffrey-mccombs/dui-for-candida_b_7821780.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jeffrey-mccombs/dui-for-ca...