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Pennsylvania resident finds "significant amount" of buried cocaine while doing yardwork (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago by oleorun to c/weirdnews

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I dug for a fence recently and only found insignificant amounts!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Dude missed out on the free party of the century

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Found the Pittsburgh PD…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I probably wouldn't give it too much of a shelf life. Considering the way it's made, lack of QC (probably), structure of the molecule, large amount of impurities (again, probably), and storage conditions.

I've yet to read the article, but even wrapped in plastic and whatnot, being buried is a pretty bad way to preserve drugs. Moisture, heat fluctuations and such.

Gonna go read it now. Will update if I think I need to.

Edit: that was uninformative. Although it looks like only one bundle was found. So the owner found 3 (haha), and the police only found one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its also an organic compound right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cocaine? 100%. Also with the structure it has, lots of potential degradation products.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah. In the ground, it'll probably still get the job done in a couple years, but much less effective. Not to mention the degradation products as I touched on before. I wouldn't risk it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And why would you tell anyone?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not inclined to do cocaine, unable to identify it, afraid of fentanyl, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Test kits are your friend...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'd be just as concerned about who may be looking for it, and the reaction of authorities.