• ansiz@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I’m amazed how the Internet allows people to watch videos of how they make cocaine and they still try it. The process is pretty gross. The main video I remember shows them mixing up the leaves with gasoline.

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      15 hours ago

      And we eat meat after slaughterhouse conditions, and we eat salad after e coli outbreaks and fish after listeria outbreaks.

      Using hydrocarbons to dissolve a component is one of the foundational things to do in chemistry. Half of the medicine you take is made with less garrosh versions of that same process

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      15 hours ago

      That’s not how chemistry works though. The end product contains no gasoline. It’s a chemical process and not just a mix of some stuff.