{"id":8755,"date":"2022-10-01T07:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T03:25:07","slug":"black-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/black-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cBlack cocaine\u201d is a rare drug, is a mixture of regular cocaine and other chemicals of administrated quantity.<\/li>\n<li>In a bid to ensure that sniffer dogs used at airports do not detect cocaine, it is being used by drug peddlers coming to India from South American countries.<\/li>\n<li>It neutralises the smell of cocaine so that it can pass through checkpoints easily.<\/li>\n<li>Black cocaine is a mixture of regular cocaine base with various substances to camouflage typical appearance (e.g. charcoal), to interfere with colour-based drug tests (cobalt salts form deep red complexes in solution), to make the mixture undetectable by drug-sniffing dogs as activated carbon may sufficiently absorb trace odours.<\/li>\n<li>The pure cocaine base is then recovered from the mixture by extraction using common organic solvents such as methylene chloride or acetone.<\/li>\n<li>A second process is required to convert the cocaine base into powdered cocaine hydrochloride.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/what-is-black-cocaine-ncb-mumbai-8181863\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black cocaine is a mixture of regular cocaine base or cocaine hydrochloride with various other substances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}