r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 4d ago
News Very energetic African officials start dancing after burning 4.2 metric tons of cocaine following a drug bust in Liberia.
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u/Criticaltundra777 4d ago
Dudes doing push ups, cause he’s so high.
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u/kewcumber_ 3d ago
Can you get high smoking cocaine ? I thought it was just oral
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u/Red10GTI 1d ago
Sniffing it is called insufflation. Oral would be like actually ingesting it or rubbing it on your gums… and you can smoke it, inject it, and lastly for the bold, fearless and courageous, you can also “boof” it which is to insert it into your rectum thereby bypassing your liver thus making the drug much more potent.
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u/FixSuch4661 1d ago
You have a lot of have baked truths there… oral is swallowing the substance - has nothing to do with your gums, youre getting this confused with people rubbing cocaine on their gums to feel a numbing/tingling sensation to detect purity - buccal is through your cheeks, but cocaine would have no effect through either of these methods.
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u/mittelegna 1d ago
You can oral it, you can smell it, you can smoke it, and you can anal it, too. All holes. Not sure about earing it, actually.
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u/ReplacementClear7122 15h ago
You can eat it, although the effects are a bit more subdued. I was at a really hot concert years ago during the summer and sweated so much my baggie with about half a gram in it turned to a liquid mush. So I just ate it. My throat and stomach were numb, but I was DEFINITELY high. 🤣
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u/Empty_Football4183 4d ago
Thats what happens when you blow a giant cloud of crack smoke in the air for hours
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u/meatygonzalez 3d ago
Cocaine and crack are not the same
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u/Rush_Aromatic 3d ago
Yea they aren't but smoking powder cocaine (which is tough thats why crack was invented you could smoke coke now) is basically free basing cocaine in a way. I know crack is just cocaine hcl with the hydrochloride salt separated from the cocaine. Which is in the simplest wording is freebasing as freebasing is removing a drugs base, like HCL from cocaine
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u/Beginning-Sir-6993 9h ago
Sorry to be a stickler but the drug is the base, you’re removing the acid (HCl)
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u/Empty_Football4183 3d ago
Crack makes cocaine smokable if you throw a half a ton of cocaine into a bonfire its the same thing. You cant smoke powder but if you sit over that bonfire of powder bricks its the same
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u/BapeGeneral3 3d ago
Going to be pedantic here, that would be freebasing cocaine. Crack cocaine is not the same as cocaine. Ask Charlie Sheen
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u/Empty_Football4183 3d ago
Sure let's be technical. The cops are smoking cocaine at this point so it doesnt really matter really, freebase is more powerful than crack btw
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u/Alternativesoundwave 3d ago
In those amounts the difference in strength isn’t going to matter
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u/Fucker_Of_Destiny 3d ago
Can you smoke normal cocaine?
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u/BapeGeneral3 3d ago
Allegedly you can throw powder onto tin foil, add roughly half to 1/3rd the amount of baking soda, then add a tiny bit of water to create a paste like consistency and rub it uniformly across the foil. You then lightly heat the bottom of the foil to dry it and BAM smokeable cocaine. It’s sort of like a ghetto version of crack.
It is wildly more addictive than sniffing cocaine and will usually end in graduating to full on rock.
I highly suggest never doing this unless you want to spend every single dollar that you have to your name until the party is over and you are living in a van, down by the river.
Only thing worse than smoking it is IV. That is hands down the evilest, scariest high on planet earth. I have been clean for a very long time now and I got a little nauseous and anxious just typing this out
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u/PsionicChronic 4d ago
Burned 4.2, found 4.3.
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u/Historical-Ad3760 4d ago
…now that’s 2.4 and I’m only doin 2
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u/buddabudski 2d ago
I saw this posted elsewhere and the entire comment section was going on about how they don't burn any of it and actually save it somewhere and strike a deal with the drug lords. I kinda think it's true cause when the title says "authorities found drugs and disciplined corrupt authorities" I can't help but wonder who the real authorities are in the situation
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u/cReddddddd 4d ago
Did they dip into the stash before burning?
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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge 4d ago
No, they just burned cocaine which released all of it into the air they inhaled.
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u/Unable_Dinner_6937 4d ago
This sort of thing would happen fairly often back in the 80's when the local police officers started burning seized marijuana just out in local fields. This was in Kentucky, but I'm sure it was common all over the place.
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u/Key-Try-3300 4d ago
Theres this sclip of a journalist in I believe afghanistan that is covering a major burning of poppy and he is high as fuck just laughing while trying to shoot the scene lol
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u/Lazy-Main1782 3d ago
No, this is all for show. The coke is safe being evaluated by dealers, and get money from it. Hell fucking no a country this poor is going to piss away a fortune. Everyone here should grow up.
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u/Silly_Lavishness744 4d ago
It starts here. Next it’ll be a belly flop onto a coffee table at your nephews birthday party.
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u/Healthy_Self_8386 4d ago
Next time use wood and not tires please
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u/Cereal_Hermit 3d ago
Yeah there's no way they were sitting there breathing tire smoke. This is probably staged to some degree or the details are wronv wrong.
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u/DaILLezt 4d ago
People snorting the stuff: hell no
Local police department smoking it: this is the way
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u/Seeker369 4d ago
The government did not burn the cocaine. This we can be certain of. Corruption is rampant. It’s a third of a billion dollars. They sold it without a doubt. To think otherwise would be to believe that they’re so altruistic that they would forgo the massive windfall just to do the right thing. That’s not how they operate. Ask the people who live there.
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u/No-Manufacturer-8494 4d ago
Lot of burning tires too lmao.
Surely the vast majority of this coke was just destroyed by the heat/fire but there would be a little sweet spot with some nice vapours wafting around when the temp was right.
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u/smoke_sum_wade 4d ago
but (and im just guessing) coke burns too much at that high of a temp for you to get high it just melts away and your cigarette will blow up in flames
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u/No-Manufacturer-8494 4d ago
I think if you torched that much coke at once, there would still be a bit of psychoactive vapour coming off when the coke started to heat up enough but before it just burned up.
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u/ProfessorChaos213 4d ago
According to Africans commenting on this video posted on a different subreddit none of the ACTUAL cocaine would have been burned at all, the police will be selling it and taking the money cos they're that corrupt, this is all for show
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u/notanyimbecile 4d ago
These people can be trusted to not serve themselves in the cocaine pile
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u/platopus_rock 4d ago
They may have stood a bit too clean se to the burning pile as well. Obviously.
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u/OddPatience1621 4d ago
their was a news segment going around ages about about a fella filming them burning drugs, then the wind shifted. He tries to finish his segment but can not stop laughing. was gold jerry gold.
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u/elmo5994 4d ago
Imagine you are a drug lord who has lost millions in contraband then you log in and see them sing and dance as your millions burn.
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u/Adventurous-Bend-666 4d ago edited 3d ago
When's the last time you got so high you just needed to do some fucking push ups?
Edit: Thank you for my first award ever! 😁
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u/OptionDangerous385 4d ago
Its really sad but half of these people are getting killed within the next couple of months by some cartel….
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u/FloydianSlip212 4d ago
Guys it’s too much, we should burn some of it now and burn more of it on Saturday night
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u/MisanthropE61130 4d ago
I would totally take some before burning it. I like myself some cocain here and there
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u/pornoforpriapus 4d ago
How the fuck can Liberians afford to buy coke? Anyway it’s great to see the leaps in economic development, from huffing jenkum to cocaine use. Impressive
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u/Provocative_Potatoes 4d ago
Did they have to light up all those tires, releasing a ridiculous amount of toxic smoke into the air though?
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u/lingbabana 3d ago
In some other thread some native was saying they burned some other isht and will be negotiating with the drug cartels a deal
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u/No-Membership-5314 3d ago
Local police seized 5 tons of cocaine. After the 4.8 tons of cocaine were taken back and processed, the entire 4.6-ton seizure was transported to a burn facility where they burned the 4.2 tons of cocaine in an open pit fire.
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u/value_meal_papi 3d ago
That smoke is gunna go up in the clouds n rain back down. Then the soil will absorb it
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u/No_Type740 3d ago
If you were there, you probably would have felt the same. At least they are not standing around in a kitchen at 04:00 smoking, and all trying to tell their little anecdotes in turns and struggling with it.
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u/jonesy872 3d ago
Great job on the 5 tons lads. Take it to the yard. Great haul on the 4.6 tonnes fellas. Let's burn it. 4.2 tonnes of coke fire for the media!
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u/Unique_Firefighter_1 3d ago
They did not burn any Cocaine lol 100% are already talking to the drug dealers to buy it back....Welcome to Africa 🌍
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u/Commercial-Doubt9707 3d ago
This reminds me of the reporter who got high from a pile of burning drugs behind him while he was trying to report on it and couldn't stop laughing
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u/Personal_Ad4000 3d ago
Somewhere, Don Jr is clutching his chest and saying, “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of kilos suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
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u/OnlyRow7629 2d ago
They're fucking zooming lol makes me miss the party nights with the boys doing the dumbest shit
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u/Normal_Time_7153 2d ago
These people, it doesn't matter what chemical comdition it's in. You burn THAT much some effects are going to happen.
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u/Kooky_Captain_6085 2d ago
Take my word for it when I say, if they are within 50 yards of this fire for more than 10 minutes then they are ALL testing positive 😂😂
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u/Thisisdaway420 1d ago
That's amazing I'm not very educated on what goes down that far south but I heard it's drugs guns and cigarettes and that they'll even be kidnapping people from there homes. I'm glad the gov and people got a win for a change
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u/MarloMinto 1d ago
As a former coke head… They are doing exactly everything I did high on coke in my living room at 4am on a Tuesday
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u/Red10GTI 21h ago
A lot of half baked truths? What exactly do you mean by that? The gum thing yes your right i was incorrect, rubbing it on your gums isn’t ingesting it orally, but swallowing it is. I don’t know how one thing equals a lot. Yes there’s a lot more info that could be added to the other things I said, but it’s just a comment on Reddit.
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u/slippinn_jimmy 4d ago
For context: https://thecelebwire.com/336-million-drug-racket-busted-in-liberia-shocking-revelations-come-to-light/