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Originally Posted by mojaveman
I was told once that executives at DOW Chemical make a tremendous amount of money from the Columbian drug trade because their chemicals are used to process the cocaine that eventually makes it's way here.
Crazy World isn't it?
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I find this very hard to believe.
The production of cocaine that I have seen did not use too many pharmaceutical or high-grade chemicals. Total annual cocaine HCL production for the entire planet usually hovers around 700 tons, IIRC. That would be a drop in the bucket for Dow in terms of scale.
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