Cocaine
topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
Acquired 
We Live to Build 
American Optimist 
the Knowledge Project 
BigDeal 
the a16z Podcast
7 statements about Cocaine, every show
Early Coca-Cola contained roughly one line of cocaine per five glasses
“As best as I was able to read from a few different sources, I think roughly once Coca-Cola starts being produced in that first decade, call it four or five glasses of Coca-Cola would be about the equivalent of a line of cocaine today.”
Patel: Buying AI GPUs resembles buying cocaine via informal networks
“How you buy GPUs is like buying cocaine. You call up a couple people, you text a couple people, you ask, yo, how much you got? What's the price?”
Machado: DEA Estimates 24% of Global Cocaine Passes Through Venezuela
“Well, the DEA estimates that 24% of cocaine that it's a deal worldwide goes through Venezuela.”
Poumpouras: Rumination activates the same brain circuitry as cocaine use
“When you ruminate over something, you notice how sometimes it can be addicting. It actually gives you the same high, it actually activates the same part of the brain that gets activated when you do coke.”
Dial: Cocaine raises dopamine levels by about 250%
“When you do when you do cocaine, usually your dopamine goes up by about 250%.”
Weisbrot: Studies show sugar addiction is worse than cocaine and heroin
“It's a serious addiction. It's worse than cocaine and heroin. Like there's been studies that have been done.”
Addicted Lab Rats Will Voluntarily Switch From Cocaine to Sugar
“And in animals at least, so rats and mice, we could do these experiments, you could demonstrate that they are, they will be more addicted to sugar than to cocaine or heroin, so these experiments Experiments, some of them were done in France, are sort of perver…”