Here is the new reality.
Seventy to eighty percent of all coke confiscated at the border has a percentage of levamisole.
Six to twelve percent cut. Levamisole is the ultimate cut. It will base out with coke. It is water soluble, it does not dissolve in acetone or ether.
And it has a highly reflective, flat plane crystal structure.
Street tests such as bleach and grit between the fingers will not show up.
It will crash out with hydrochloric acid as a salt just like base.
Levamisole will give the user a slight short stimulation and is probably a potentiator or synergistic with cocaine.
Levamisole kills white blood cells, it can destroy your immune system and cause gangenous lesions, usually on the extremities.
Not in everyone, not in small amounts but it happens. The affects may be cumulative. That isn't the bad news.
Levamisole metabolises into aminorex.
Aminorex is a very very nasty amphetamine that affects serotonin and dopamine just like coke.
It has a long half life. It also is linked to a formerly rare disorder called pulmonary artery hypertension.
It thickens the insides of the artery on the lung side as a result of a particular serotonin affinity. There is argument over several clinical aspects. It is unknown if the drug is a trigger or not. If it is, the disease will progress even if you stop using it.
Once diagnosed with the disease the majority of people die within six years.
In Europe, before the drug was banned, it was epidemic. Sixty percent of the people diagnosed with the disease had a history of aminorex use.
There is as far as I know, one test for levamisole called ez test out of the UK.
Dance safe has committed to a test.
There presently is no known method of removing the stuff, which is an animal dewormer.
I know, sounds like a drug wives tale.
The European Union is waiting for the next pulmonary artery hypertension epidemic.
This is all real. The better the coke works and looks, the more chance there is that it is cut with this stuff.
Multiple sources, multiple ports of entry, no one knows why this is happening and no one can explain why the product is cut prior to smuggling, possibly cut at the originating lab, possibly even cut at the pasta level.
I have some other findings as well but we will leave it at that. Unless and until there is a cheap widespread test and it is used and coke that tests positive is refused at every level, people will start dying.
There are no specific early symptoms of the disease but the progression is an inability to quickly recover from exercise, an inability to breath easily, chest pains, proceeding finally to incapacitating and likely death.
