Andean Cocaine: Bignon And Balarezo

Andean Cocaine There were two men who made drugs Alfredo Bignon and Eduardo Balarezo. Coca is a dried leaf of the “subtropical Andean shrub Elthycoxylon.” The traffic of cocaine is over whelming controlled by home grown, successful and eminently “Latin” entrepreurs and middle men. Pharmacist Alfredo Bignon had a laboratory of his Droguera Botica Francesa around the corner of main plaza. On March 13, 1885 he was going to present his findings of this cocaine to Academia Libre de Medicina de Lima. Sigmund Freud worked on his own cocaine paper. Eduardo Balarezo was making history cocaine. Balarezo was arrested because he was the head of cocaine. On August 20, 1949 80 people in Peru went to jail for the biggest dope bust. Balarezo was a mixed
Cocaine affects the cardio vascular system, which can endanger heart conditions. Cocaine hydrochloride can be injected or smoked but how a day’s its snorted, in small doses (20-30 milligrams). In the 19th century cocaine was a experimental drug called wonder drug. “Six hundred to eight hundred tons of cocaine are the drugs fifteen million or more eager aficionados of all classes and colors, primarly in the United States, Brazil and western and eastern Europe.” In the 1990’s is when it peaked for Americans using Andean Cocaine. “The difference between natural coca and chemical cocaine are hotly as science, with varied opinions infused by politics and ideology as well as science.” Cocaine culture which is anyone with the urge and cash can join where as coca savored by Andean Indian it is bought and sold in an integrated in a bounded regional circuit. David T. Courtwright is a drug historian. Coca is the divine plant of the Incas. “Coca was actively shunned during the 16th century. By 1700, coca had basically transformed into a regional commodity of limited range and based cultural artifact of the Andean realms of the Spanish American empire.” Coca was crucial to Europe but helped spains core colonial silver mining enterprise. European hated coca because one is cultural: “mortification of coca was aesthetically repulsive to Europeans who had no comparable form
It comes from South America and a lot of people would sell it and make it. They sold 600 tons every year. The foreigner’s countries are where they sell more of Andean Cocaine. It illegal and bad for your brain and memory. People still sell it even though they know it’s illegal. Gootenburg emphasized more on the cocaine and coca and how it affects people if they used this