2006-10-01 19:49:01 · 19 answers · asked by Robert P 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
It is a stimulant or upper. That's why crackheads crash for days after getting high.
2006-10-01 19:51:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starts out as an upper, after addiction it is a downer. I know from personal experience. Be smart and leave it alone.
2006-10-01 19:58:03 · answer #2 · answered by housemouse62451 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system and an appetite suppressant, creating what has been described as a euphoric sense of happiness and increased energy. Though most often used recreationally for this effect, cocaine is also a topical anesthetic used in eye, throat, and nose surgery. Cocaine can be psychologically addictive, and its possession, cultivation, and distribution is illegal for non-medicinal and non-government sanctioned purposes in virtually all parts of the world. The name comes from the name of the coca plant plus the alkaloid suffix -ine.
The stimulating qualities of the coca leaf were known to the ancient peoples of Peru and other Pre-Columbian South American societies. In modern Western countries, cocaine has been a feature of the counterculture for well-over a century; there is a long-list of prominent intellectuals, artists, and musicians who have used the drug -- names ranging from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sigmund Freud to United States President Ulysses S. Grant. For many decades cocaine was a key ingredient in Coca-Cola [2]. Today, although illegal in virtually all countries, cocaine remains popular in a wide variety of social and personal settings.
2006-10-01 19:58:04 · answer #3 · answered by 81Felice333 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a downer(yourself) if you are taking the upper(cocain).
2006-10-01 19:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by Timothy Summer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion it is both.... An upper in the moment and sadly a downer for your life.. Don't do it.
2006-10-02 05:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by leviathia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cocaine is most definately an upper...Makes you a chatterbox and stay awake for hours doing nothing...but talking indepth about absolutely everything but nothing at all and chew gum excessively.
2006-10-01 20:02:55 · answer #6 · answered by Beautiful Disaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definantly an upper
2006-10-01 20:01:28 · answer #7 · answered by jessiebeth8422 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. It gets you high but innitially it is actually a downer and you are always looking for that first high and never get it.
2006-10-01 19:52:27 · answer #8 · answered by mel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
warning!!! i foresee your ignorance / interest in drugs as lethal!!! people like you are the ones giving drugs a bad name. you'll probably go and do something stupid like mix coke and valium and stop your heart. at least learn to spell a drug. then have the mental acuity to realize that you're asking about the world's most popular, #1 UPPER.
2006-10-01 20:18:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I know is I hate the way it made me feel.
Big waste of money and time.
The crash alone is bad enough to make one suicidal.
Plus,Cokeheads are airheads.I hate being in a group
of them all chewing gum incessantly,talking 90 MPH
about absolutely NOTHING of any value.It's a sure fire way to delude yourself into thinking you are having fun.
2006-10-01 19:59:51 · answer #10 · answered by moebiusfox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋