Talk:Lacing (drugs)

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This needs a better page name. --Nessup 03:11, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Lacing is the common name for adulteration or dilution of a substance. This page is not very substantial and should be extended. It is OK to merge lacing with the page on drug adulteration but lacing should be a subset not the other way round

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Inert chemicals are cheap, non-psychoactive, and readily available chemicals that are often mixed with many street drugs such as cocaine and heroin. They are mixed in to bulk up the original product to make it appear as if there is more than there actually is, so they can generate more profit. The inert chemicals that are picked to be mixed in usually have some characteristics of the original product. Examples of this includes cutting procaine into cocaine

The above paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense, as procaine is not inert by any stretch of the imagination. However, I cannot think of a suitable example to replace it with. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.27.173 (talk) 17:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC) Procaine might not be inert, but it definitely is not psychoactive. The paragraph just needs some slight editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Astral Zen (talk • contribs) 15:08, 10 February 2008 (UTC)