Now This Is Just Absurd

As if you needed another reason not to use Cocaine, it, "used to get you high, now it rots your skin [warning, slightly disturbing images]." That's right, in a disturbing trend in New York City and Los Angeles, Cocaine is being "cut" with a drug that veterinarians use to de-worm animals known as levamisole. In human beings this drug has the side-effect of causing such severe damage to blood vessels under the skin that dead patches form and literally rot off.

 While the damage done by this Cocaine mixed with levamisole may be most evident in big cities, don't think Cocaine anywhere else is better off. According to the article, "In 2010 the Drug Enforcement Agency said 70% of the Coke coming into the US was cut with levamisole." If Cocaine were a commercial product the ad would go something like this, "Cocaine, now with added skin rot."