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From: weltyrp@rpics.UUCP (Richard Welty)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Re: cocaine in (very) old coke
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 22:47:34 EDT
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> ... I have no idea
> what they do with the drug after extracting it.  ...

Could be that they sell it to the (legal) drug industry ... cocaine is a
common, useful, effective local anesthetic.  Just put a little powder around
the spot in question, and all the feeling goes away.  It is used, for
example, when removing warts.
-- 
				Rich Welty

	"Here young Walter is remembering his early days on the
	 planet Krypton, with his father Jor-El Cronkite"
					- David Brinkley, on SCTV

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