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Background: The author of this post is battling Mutiple Sclerosis and is also a fan of the movie Cocaine Cowboys 2. He has a blog that is updated almost every day.

Title: shut up, seriously?

This is my life, I just tell it like it is…..

This morning I woke up at 7:00 and was at the Y working out by 7:55, I went home as usual and was just getting ready to get in the shower when I got a phone call. It was another RESTRICTED phone call, but I picked it up anyways. As soon as I did, I was blown away. I recognized the voice right away, and when he told me who he was for himself, when I actually heard the audio play into my ears, I actually had the breath taken out of me.Now you might be thinking, well all this is a bit much Mikey, but I kid you not. Charles called me up and we spoke for a good 34 minutes and 26 seconds this morning about subjects ranging from his past life, to positively affecting the youth of today. What a crazy experience, just 2 days ago I was watching a movie about this guy, talking with my friends about how it would be crazy to be able to meet him. And then I get to talk with him on the phone. Not only that, but Charles & his wife said that they admired the things I have done… WHAT?!?!? It is so interesting to me, to see how everything unfolded. Right from the get go, when we (my friends and I) were in Blockbuster, it was strange. Josh(friend) wanted to watch Harold and Kumar 2 Escape from Guantanamo Bay…but I thought that looked stupid and mindless so I was very defiant as soon as the suggestion was made. We kept looking and Josh kept trying to talk me into Harold & Kumar. Well, we look and look and look and finally get down to the last wall of movies. Tony who was quiet the whole time says, “hey, look it’s Cocaine Cowboys 2.” We all agreed & the rest is history. All the little things really do make a difference.

via astm.org

The presence of cocaine on U.S. paper currency collected in many cities in the United States has previously been reported. Currency becomes contaminated during the exchange, storage and use of cocaine. Different currency denominations are also rolled by drug users and used to snort cocaine. Illicit cocaine is widely abused and therefore the contaminated paper currency can be easily found in common use. A total of 18 bills were analyzed in our laboratory for cocaine. Ten $20 bills were randomly collected in Rockford, IL and four $1 bills in Chicago. An additional four uncirculated $1 bills were analyzed as a control group. All bills were extracted with 0.1 M hydrochloric acid followed by solid-phase extraction. Cocaine was identified using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in full scan mode, and drug quantitation was performed in selected ion monitoring mode. A standard curve was prepared and doxepin was used as an internal standard. In addition, for method validation two levels of control solutions were analyzed simultaneously. Precision and accuracy values were within acceptable ranges. Cocaine was present on 92.8% of all bills collected from the general circulation. All $20 bills were contaminated with cocaine and the amount of drug varied from 0.14 to 10.02 mg of cocaine per bill (x = 2.86 mg). Only one $1 bill was cocaine free. In one case ($1 bill), only traces (below quantitation limit) of cocaine were found. All four uncirculated $1 bills were cocaine-free.

-= The Official Charles Cosby Site =-
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An article found at Panachereport is definitely worth reading. It is one of the few good articles on a woman that literally pioneered the cocaine trade in the 70’s and 80’s. The article mentions an emerald and gold encrusted Mac-10 birthday gift, lingerie designed and sold by Griselda Blanco with special pockets enabling female mules to pack on 2 kilos of cocaine under their clothes, and some other fascination information about the first female kingpin in the Medellin cartel.

-= The Official Charles Cosby Site =-
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According to a recent news brief, bigtime Swedish distributor, Nonstop Entertainment has acquired rights to distribute Cocaine Cowboys 2 Hustlin’ With The Godmother from Magnolia Pictures in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. The deal happened during last weekend’s Tribeca Film Festival.

-= The Official Charles Cosby Site =-
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