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Cocaine Test Prompts Red Bull Removal In Germany
viyh writes to mention that six German states have mandated pulling Red Bull Cola energy drinks off the shelves after testing found trace amounts of cocaine in the drink. "Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment said Monday that the cocaine level was too low to pose a health risk. It planned to produce a more detailed report Wednesday. Red Bull said its cola is 'harmless and marketable in both the US and Europe.' It said similar coca leaf extracts are used worldwide as flavoring, and a test it commissioned itself found no cocaine traces."
So that's how you get your wings! :p
I would say the levels are too high when you are willing to blow some dude in a bathroom stall to get more Red Bull. Till then, it's probably just fine.
Red Bull is a homeopathic stimulant!
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Due to trace amounts of cocaine known to be found on dollar bills - eating, snorting, licking or in any other way ingesting of money shall be strictly prohibited.
If the police officer founds that there is probable cause that the suspect was planing to engage in money ingestion - he/she/it has authorization to detain the suspect and confiscate the said money as evidence.
Cause there is no ceasefire in the war on drugs.
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Red Bull is not a drug. I used to suck d*** for coke. Now that's an addiction. You ever suck some d*** for Red Bull?
Sounds to me like anyone trying to use cocaine by drinking Red Bull Cola would die of excess water consumption (anything is a poison given a high enough dose) before they'd feel the cocaine at all.
[Citation needed]
I suspect it'd be because they flew off into outer space and suffocated.
Does having a witty signature really indicate normality?
we heard you like tweaking so we put a stimulant in your stimulant so you can tweak while you tweak
Marketing Guy: So, there are artificial flavors made from coca?
Food Chemistry Guy: Yeah, wild, eh?
Marketing Guy: Can you just fill the can with artificial flavoring?
Food Chemistry Guy: No, it would kill our customers, and it would be illegal. The allowable level is much lower than 100%.
Marketing Guy: How much lower?
Food Chemistry Guy: 120 PPM. [note: totally made up]
Marketing Guy: What's a PPM?
Food Chemistry Guy: Parts per million, it is a more precise measure of...
Marketing Guy: [interrupting] Forget I asked -- just put in as much as you can.
Food Chemistry Guy: But, it'll taste terrible.
Marketing Guy: [blinks] ... Ummm, have you tasted regular Red Bull?
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It's cocaine in can, baby! Shazam!
Should be easy enough to calculate:
Pure cocaine sells for, let's say, $30,000 per kg. To get a kilogram of cocaine from RedBull would take 2.5 billion liters, or roughly 7 billion 12 oz cans. A 24-case of Red Bull seems to cost about $34.80, or $1.45 per can.
In other words, to get 1 kg of cocaine from Red Bull would cost $10 billion, not to mention the enormous expense of purification. And all this would only be worth $30,000. It would cost 340,000 times more for the Red Bull than the cocaine would be worth.
As you said, the numbers don't exactly add up. Not even close.
There ought to be a Google calculator function for this.
"$30000 worth of cocaine in Red Bulls"
$30,000 dollars worth of cocaine = $10,000,000,000 dollars worth of red bull
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Wolfram Alpha wasn't sure what to do with my input :(
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I'm confused. How many Libraries of Congress is that?
-David
Haha, taste my ass!
I've never tasted shit, so I wouldn't know.
So kinda like you only better at it?
There's also trace amounts of drugs on money, let's all paaaaaanic and take everything out of circulation. Someone should explain these boneheaded idiots that a trace amount nearly nothing and has probably always been there.
shut up, go study some spelling.