Cancel that New Year's Eve idea [Tainted Cocaine]
Props to the San Francisco Chronicle for localizing that global story on tainted cocaine we wrote about a few weeks ago. The Chron followed up with local doctors who have seen four cases of illness related to cocaine cutting drug levamisole. Most of these patients are 40 year-old female crackheads.
As reported on TDR before, American coke is showing up with alarming amounts of bovine dewormer levamisole. No one knows why it’s in there, as it doesn’t get you high, and does kill white blood cells, leaving coke users open to secondary infections, just like AIDS patients.
TDR’s guess is the cartels got a bunch of it from China for super-cheap, as supplies of other cutting agents have diminished. Now they have to get rid of it somehow.
Either way, the only powder we’re carving up on New Year’s Eve comes from the clouds. Lake Tahoe has a whole bunch of it for $69 a pop.
