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--- Quote from: Impossible on September 13, 2015, 09:00:07 PM ---In the original article they said it's just zinc oxide powdered and mixed in bags.  I don't think it was intending to mask the smell, just the appearance.  Colombians aren't that dumb...

There was a report a few years back talking about a polymeric  material produced from cocaine to allow it to be smuggled out more successfully.  It sounds a bit fanciful to me, though I suppose it wouldn't be impossible to  hydrolyze the methyl ester and and basically make a pseudo-pepetide

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There was a bust of such material some decades ago. It had been made into plumbing fittings that appeared to be PVC.
It was reported to have been undetectable by the sniffer dogs.
I don't have an internet reference for this as I read about it in a law book in the late 20th century.  I'm not even sure of the date, but it was very early. Probably 80s or even 70s.

The same book mentioned the occasional appearance of Cocaine back then that had a non-conventional isomer distribution, which was assumed to be synthetic.

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