Nu fandt jeg også lige en kilde på det med, at syntetisk kokain er utroligt sjældent, og hvor de også nævner sodavandsindustrien som leverandør af farmaceutisk kokain:
http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/c ... ction.html"Pharmaceutical cocaine is a by-product from the industrial extraction from coca of flavoring agents used in the soft-drink industry. The isolation process is proprietary and cannot be detailed in this study; however, it is known to proceed through numerous recrystallization and purification steps. The final product, cocaine hydrochloride, is generally of better than 99.5% purity."
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"The classic total synthesis of cocaine involves three synthetic, one enantiomeric resolution and one diastereomeric purification steps (Figure 112,22), and requires a significantly high level of synthetic expertise and well-equipped laboratory facilities. The synthesis will produce a pair of racemic diastereomers (of which only one, i.e., (-)-cocaine, is physiologically active) if the enantiomeric resolution and diastereomeric purification steps are omitted. To date, there have been only three seizures of illicit synthetic cocaine laboratories in the United States. All three followed the classic synthesis; however, none of the three performed the enantiomeric resolution step. Two of these laboratories were run by clandestine operators with advanced chemical training, and successfully produced very low yields of racemic cocaine."