Aug 15, 2005

no cup needed

1. Apparently certain northwest Italians are crazy for coca-snuffs.
The team, led by Ettore Zuccato, used mass spectrometry to compare ratios of cocaine and its breakdown product, benzoylecgonine, which are excreted in human urine. They say at least 160,000 25-milligram "lines" of the drug are snorted each day in the region, with four lines in a typical daily "dose" (Environmental Health, DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-4-14). Official estimates suggest only 60,000 lines are snorted each month.
2. Creepily, detecting a drug habit no longer requires the standard procedure.

3. "Crazy for coca-snuffs" is hereby trademarked.

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