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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2009, 10:49:38 AM »
Might wanna adjust the title ;)


But I wonder how they got those results, and, assuming they'r correct, how it got into a shipment of Red Bull :P
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2009, 10:49:51 AM »
I read yesterday that parts of Germany were banning the drink for fear of violating narcotics laws.
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2009, 11:37:40 AM »
Of course, all this will probably fuel a buying frenzy in the US...


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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2009, 11:46:14 AM »
Just like Coca-Cola, eh?

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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2009, 11:48:48 AM »
And what about cough medicine? It contains Hydrocodone, Codeine, Morphine, and Opium.
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2009, 12:07:30 PM »
But cocaine is the opposite of a narcotic!
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bill energy drinks
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2009, 02:28:51 PM »
And what about cough medicine? It contains Hydrocodone, Codeine, Morphine, and Opium.

Cough Medicine is candy.  It has traces of stuff in it, but it's mostly worthless.  I don't even bother taking it.
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2009, 02:35:27 PM »
I find this hard to believe.
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2009, 03:19:34 PM »
At those concentrations, I'm guessing some contamination of raw materials. Or a chemically similar false alarm.
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2009, 03:25:27 PM »
According to this article in Snopes, it's just "an extract of decocainized coca leaf".
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2009, 05:58:43 PM »
this is the poppy bagel of beverages...
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2009, 06:01:48 PM »
At those concentrations, I'm guessing some contamination of raw materials. Or a chemically similar false alarm.
Yeah. They're making something out of nothing. It reminds me of the news about the Egyptians (or some other Arabic country) having something like 300,000 pigs slaughtered when the "swine flu" scare was just taking off in the news. My initial thought was "I'm surprised they have that many pigs."
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2009, 06:04:39 PM »
i think afganistan or pakistan slaughtered its only pig...

edit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/06/flu-fear-afghanistan-quar_n_197680.html
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2009, 08:08:56 PM »
You should post that in the lol thread. Both for the fact Afghanistan only has one pig and for how dumb the people are.
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2009, 08:10:09 PM »
You should post that in the lol thread. Both for the fact Afghanistan only has one pig and for how dumb the people are.
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2009, 08:34:16 PM »
Apparently, Red Bull stopped trying to give you wings and decided to try and make you high via other more feasible methods!
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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2009, 08:36:54 PM »
Apparently, Red Bull stopped trying to give you wings and decided to try and make you high via other more feasible methods!
Their slogan is no longer "Red Bull gives you wings", it's a guy with crazy-red eyes screaming "I can fly mutha- :censored !" before swan diving off the top of a building.

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Re: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull energy drinks
« Reply #19 on: June 02, 2009, 11:34:54 PM »
Isn't that amount of cocaine so small that if that amount showed up in your urine you can't even be fined for it(you need 25 mg of pot (i assume by liter) in your piss to get sent at least to more serious rehab)?

So I feel that some coke head high off his ass just took a piss in a red bull vat (or maybe hid his stash, I'm unaware of the size of redbull vats), this would give it its trace amount of cocaine, and give me another reason not to buy red bull. :D

...or you could always go with the scietificer explanation linked above...if your into that kinda thing that is...