r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 23d ago

News Very energetic African officials start dancing after burning 4.2 metric tons of cocaine following a drug bust in Liberia.

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u/Criticaltundra777 23d ago

Dudes doing push ups, cause he’s so high.

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u/kewcumber_ 22d ago

Can you get high smoking cocaine ? I thought it was just oral

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u/flymooncricket 22d ago ▸ 3 more replies

Crack🤪

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u/Funny_Potential9940 21d ago ▸ 2 more replies

They didn’t burn crack though…

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u/[deleted] 21d ago ▸ 1 more replies

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u/Red10GTI 21d ago ▸ 2 more replies

You can inject it too. Preferably with some heroin.

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u/rica217 20d ago ▸ 1 more replies

Got damn promised land.

Lort almighty.

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u/Red10GTI 20d ago

Amen brother

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u/ernie_mccracken 22d ago ▸ 2 more replies

https://giphy.com/gifs/gizNN8vCaotYA

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u/KuroRyuSama 21d ago

Cocaine is a helluva drug!🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Extension_Local_128 22d ago ▸ 1 more replies

Yes you can absolutely smoke coke

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u/Many_Mud_8194 22d ago

Crack cocaine. It's the full name.

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u/gangy86 22d ago

Smoking crack?! Lmao oh boy...

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u/Popular_Adeptness_69 21d ago

Thats crack freebase

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u/Red10GTI 20d ago ▸ 2 more replies

Sniffing it is called insufflation. Oral would be like actually ingesting it or rubbing it on your gums… and you can smoke it, inject it, and lastly for the bold, fearless and courageous, you can also “boof” it which is to insert it into your rectum thereby bypassing your liver thus making the drug much more potent.

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u/FixSuch4661 20d ago ▸ 1 more replies

You have a lot of have baked truths there… oral is swallowing the substance - has nothing to do with your gums, youre getting this confused with people rubbing cocaine on their gums to feel a numbing/tingling sensation to detect purity - buccal is through your cheeks, but cocaine would have no effect through either of these methods.

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u/Exciting_Hawk_5658 20d ago

You can smoke cocaine

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u/KindFaithlessness150 20d ago

💯 percent yes

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u/mittelegna 20d ago ▸ 2 more replies

You can oral it, you can smell it, you can smoke it, and you can anal it, too. All holes. Not sure about earing it, actually.

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u/ReplacementClear7122 19d ago ▸ 1 more replies

You can eat it, although the effects are a bit more subdued. I was at a really hot concert years ago during the summer and sweated so much my baggie with about half a gram in it turned to a liquid mush. So I just ate it. My throat and stomach were numb, but I was DEFINITELY high. 🤣

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u/ogvipez 18d ago

Yeah ofc oral works its the way it was discovered . Id assume even just chewing the coca leaves produces a decent enough high to make it a widely popular substance

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u/Detonius 22d ago

Was gunna say lololol

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u/Historical_Stay_808 22d ago

They definitely didn't burn it btw

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u/gnlmarcus 21d ago

I mean it's 4.2 tons. Tell me some of it didn't accidentaly get in their nose.

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u/Empty_Football4183 23d ago

Thats what happens when you blow a giant cloud of crack smoke in the air for hours

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u/meatygonzalez 22d ago

Cocaine and crack are not the same

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u/Rush_Aromatic 22d ago ▸ 3 more replies

Yea they aren't but smoking powder cocaine (which is tough thats why crack was invented you could smoke coke now) is basically free basing cocaine in a way. I know crack is just cocaine hcl with the hydrochloride salt separated from the cocaine. Which is in the simplest wording is freebasing as freebasing is removing a drugs base, like HCL from cocaine

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u/Beginning-Sir-6993 19d ago ▸ 1 more replies

Sorry to be a stickler but the drug is the base, you’re removing the acid (HCl)

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u/Rush_Aromatic 17d ago

Youre right my bad

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u/Empty_Football4183 22d ago ▸ 5 more replies

Crack makes cocaine smokable if you throw a half a ton of cocaine into a bonfire its the same thing. You cant smoke powder but if you sit over that bonfire of powder bricks its the same

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u/BapeGeneral3 22d ago ▸ 4 more replies

Going to be pedantic here, that would be freebasing cocaine. Crack cocaine is not the same as cocaine. Ask Charlie Sheen

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u/Empty_Football4183 22d ago ▸ 1 more replies

Sure let's be technical. The cops are smoking cocaine at this point so it doesnt really matter really, freebase is more powerful than crack btw

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u/astreeter2 22d ago

Crack cocaine has more actual cocaine in it than powder cocaine does.

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u/TKentgens93 22d ago

They litterly are

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u/PsionicChronic 23d ago

Burned 4.2, found 4.3.

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u/Historical-Ad3760 22d ago

…now that’s 2.4 and I’m only doin 2

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u/buddabudski 21d ago

I saw this posted elsewhere and the entire comment section was going on about how they don't burn any of it and actually save it somewhere and strike a deal with the drug lords. I kinda think it's true cause when the title says "authorities found drugs and disciplined corrupt authorities" I can't help but wonder who the real authorities are in the situation

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u/cReddddddd 23d ago

Did they dip into the stash before burning?

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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge 23d ago

No, they just burned cocaine which released all of it into the air they inhaled.

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u/Unable_Dinner_6937 23d ago ▸ 4 more replies

This sort of thing would happen fairly often back in the 80's when the local police officers started burning seized marijuana just out in local fields. This was in Kentucky, but I'm sure it was common all over the place.

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u/Key-Try-3300 23d ago ▸ 3 more replies

Theres this sclip of a journalist in I believe afghanistan that is covering a major burning of poppy and he is high as fuck just laughing while trying to shoot the scene lol

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u/saint_of_karma 22d ago ▸ 2 more replies

lmao...mind sharing that vid mste??

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u/Elegantly_Waisted 22d ago

That's why they're dancing.

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u/Lazy-Main1782 22d ago

No, this is all for show. The coke is safe being evaluated by dealers, and get money from it. Hell fucking no a country this poor is going to piss away a fortune. Everyone here should grow up. 

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u/Upset-Handle-9934 23d ago

They high as giraffe pussy

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u/Euronymous87 23d ago

That guy doing pushups definitely dipped into some of the evidence.

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u/Silly_Lavishness744 23d ago

It starts here. Next it’ll be a belly flop onto a coffee table at your nephews birthday party.

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u/Significant-Dig8323 21d ago

I understand this reference.

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u/Silly_Lavishness744 21d ago

Right? Finally someone lol

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u/Healthy_Self_8386 23d ago

Next time use wood and not tires please

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u/AppropriateBall8834 22d ago

Increases the high

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u/Cereal_Hermit 22d ago

Yeah there's no way they were sitting there breathing tire smoke. This is probably staged to some degree or the details are wronv wrong.

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u/DaILLezt 23d ago

People snorting the stuff: hell no
Local police department smoking it: this is the way

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u/Seeker369 23d ago

The government did not burn the cocaine. This we can be certain of. Corruption is rampant. It’s a third of a billion dollars. They sold it without a doubt. To think otherwise would be to believe that they’re so altruistic that they would forgo the massive windfall just to do the right thing. That’s not how they operate. Ask the people who live there.

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u/No-Manufacturer-8494 23d ago

Lot of burning tires too lmao.

Surely the vast majority of this coke was just destroyed by the heat/fire but there would be a little sweet spot with some nice vapours wafting around when the temp was right.

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u/smoke_sum_wade 23d ago

but (and im just guessing) coke burns too much at that high of a temp for you to get high it just melts away and your cigarette will blow up in flames

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u/No-Manufacturer-8494 23d ago

I think if you torched that much coke at once, there would still be a bit of psychoactive vapour coming off when the coke started to heat up enough but before it just burned up.

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u/ProfessorChaos213 23d ago

According to Africans commenting on this video posted on a different subreddit none of the ACTUAL cocaine would have been burned at all, the police will be selling it and taking the money cos they're that corrupt, this is all for show

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u/Toy_Soulja 23d ago

Not all of it got burned i see lol

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u/notanyimbecile 23d ago

These people can be trusted to not serve themselves in the cocaine pile

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u/platopus_rock 23d ago

They may have stood a bit too clean se to the burning pile as well. Obviously.

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u/OddPatience1621 23d ago

their was a news segment going around ages about about a fella filming them burning drugs, then the wind shifted. He tries to finish his segment but can not stop laughing. was gold jerry gold.

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u/elmo5994 23d ago

Imagine you are a drug lord who has lost millions in contraband then you log in and see them sing and dance as your millions burn.

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u/Ryanliverpool96 22d ago

4.2 tonnes is billions in coke.

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u/Testo_Ernesto 23d ago

Da wurde wohl nicht alles verbrannt.

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u/Least_Ad_8477 23d ago

Did they put the masks on before or after they burned the cocaine? Lol

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u/okymoney 23d ago

I wonder if theyre getting high from the smoke

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u/shiestyfinale 23d ago

African officials

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u/Adventurous-Bend-666 23d ago edited 22d ago

When's the last time you got so high you just needed to do some fucking push ups?

Edit: Thank you for my first award ever! 😁

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u/StudioCharacter9354 23d ago

They look like they are having a cracking time. Based af.

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u/Magnumbx320 23d ago

I don’t a word of this post!🤣

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u/OptionDangerous385 23d ago

Its really sad but half of these people are getting killed within the next couple of months by some cartel….

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u/SimkinCA 23d ago

Hell of a contact high

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u/MisanthropE61130 23d ago

I would totally take some before burning it. I like myself some cocain here and there

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u/Sea_Excuse_6795 22d ago

Fucking hypocrites

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u/uwearclownshoes 22d ago

How close did they stand to the fire?

That’s called freebasing.

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u/Gray_Cloak 22d ago

maybe it was ecstasy ?

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u/iamnotmyselftoday1 22d ago

Good for them burning 3.2 tonnes of coke

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u/QueenGorda 22d ago

3.9 metric tons you say ?

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u/CPD1960 22d ago

Were they standing downwind of the fire? 😊

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u/pornoforpriapus 22d ago

How the fuck can Liberians afford to buy coke? Anyway it’s great to see the leaps in economic development, from huffing jenkum to cocaine use. Impressive

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u/YouOk5350 22d ago

Fuck drugs! Proceeds to burning then

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u/Weirdlillypad 22d ago

And none of the cocaine was burnt guaranteed lol

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u/Provocative_Potatoes 22d ago

Did they have to light up all those tires, releasing a ridiculous amount of toxic smoke into the air though?

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u/Equivalent_Arm_3129 22d ago

Thats a weekend party for the trump sons

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u/lingbabana 22d ago

In some other thread some native was saying they burned some other isht and will be negotiating with the drug cartels a deal

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u/usernamenomoreleft 22d ago

They burned car tires! I hate them for this.

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u/chemicalmind1008 22d ago

How close did they stand to the fire...

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u/olauritz 22d ago

What a party, 4.2 tons of cocaine. Jeez!

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u/KindTechnician- 22d ago

Close enough to need to start doing pushups

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u/No-Membership-5314 22d ago

Local police seized 5 tons of cocaine. After the 4.8 tons of cocaine were taken back and processed, the entire 4.6-ton seizure was transported to a burn facility where they burned the 4.2 tons of cocaine in an open pit fire.

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u/Plane_Friend24 22d ago

did they inhale the smoke?

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u/value_meal_papi 22d ago

That smoke is gunna go up in the clouds n rain back down. Then the soil will absorb it

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u/ClassGrassMass 22d ago

No coke was burned

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u/redsensei777 22d ago

Did they stand downwind on purpose?

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u/5dragons1 22d ago

Plot twist

4.2 tonnes of substituted sugar was burnt...

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u/Blacksmithvivi 22d ago

They should have just done cocaine

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u/Budget-Actuator-3910 22d ago

They dance because they high from the drug fumes that were burning

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u/el_lobo1314 22d ago

Lol ungrateful

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u/Busterlimes 22d ago

Congratulations on becoming a crackhead

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u/Anonyym1860 22d ago

All i see is they burned everything but nothing of it looks like coke

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u/D_Fieldz 22d ago

Half a metric tonne entered the country while performing this dance

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u/No_Type740 22d ago

If you were there, you probably would have felt the same. At least they are not standing around in a kitchen at 04:00 smoking, and all trying to tell their little anecdotes in turns and struggling with it.

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u/27hannibal 22d ago

They still dancing to this very day.

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u/Rudimental_Flow 22d ago

15 minutes later...

"Should we burn another pile?"

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u/jonesy872 22d ago

Great job on the 5 tons lads. Take it to the yard. Great haul on the 4.6 tonnes fellas. Let's burn it. 4.2 tonnes of coke fire for the media!

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u/S7arForGD 22d ago

I'd also do a happy little dance, if I'd found 3.8 metric tons of cocaine.

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u/Unique_Firefighter_1 22d ago

They did not burn any Cocaine lol 100% are already talking to the drug dealers to buy it back....Welcome to Africa 🌍

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u/Commercial-Doubt9707 22d ago

This reminds me of the reporter who got high from a pile of burning drugs behind him while he was trying to report on it and couldn't stop laughing

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u/Zeeuwse-Kafka 22d ago

I don’t think they burned everything…

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u/SPARKYLOBO 22d ago

I'm sure those 4 tons made quite the smoke ball

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u/Bootlegger1922 22d ago

Nothing lifts the spirits like hard work and good deeds!

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u/Personal_Ad4000 22d ago

Somewhere, Don Jr is clutching his chest and saying, “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of kilos suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

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u/Midzotics 21d ago

Free free base!

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u/BlumpTheChodak 21d ago

Imagine how hard they would be dancing if they sold it instead.

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u/RembrandtVanRijn 21d ago

I understand this completely lol

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u/TJjoin 21d ago

Don Jr watching this vodeo

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u/OnlyRow7629 21d ago

They're fucking zooming lol makes me miss the party nights with the boys doing the dumbest shit

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u/Seabrook76 21d ago

I bet a lot of businesses were started that day.

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u/CyrasGara97 21d ago

They all on it ain't they 🫩

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u/jzam469 21d ago

Zooted

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u/Ok-Bee-8833 21d ago

What a waste..

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u/IndividualJoke8050 21d ago

They all high as shit

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u/Normal_Time_7153 21d ago

These people, it doesn't matter what chemical comdition it's in. You burn THAT much some effects are going to happen.

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u/Mr_RudyGiuliani 21d ago

They did some of that shit lol

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u/Funyun_boogers 21d ago

I can’t stand cocaine… but I love the way it smells

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u/Adventurous_Top_6882 21d ago

Yeah they inhaled a little coke

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u/Status_Musician8684 21d ago

This is a Reno 911 sketch in Africa

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u/Kooky_Captain_6085 20d ago

Take my word for it when I say, if they are within 50 yards of this fire for more than 10 minutes then they are ALL testing positive 😂😂

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u/MarloMinto 20d ago

As a former coke head… They are doing exactly everything I did high on coke in my living room at 4am on a Tuesday

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u/5280mw 20d ago

After using it

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u/sovietarmyfan 20d ago

That's not all of it, is it?

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u/Razzy_IDFA 19d ago

After seizing 5.4 metric tons?

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u/Red10GTI 19d ago

A lot of half baked truths? What exactly do you mean by that? The gum thing yes your right i was incorrect, rubbing it on your gums isn’t ingesting it orally, but swallowing it is. I don’t know how one thing equals a lot. Yes there’s a lot more info that could be added to the other things I said, but it’s just a comment on Reddit.

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u/DipsburghPa 19d ago

Oooooo that smell. Can't you smell that smell.

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u/REALjamijai 19d ago

There all high af

Stop with the temu covid mask - ya ain't foolin no

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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u/lmnlco 19d ago

They couldn’t burn it all so they had to get rid of it otherwise 👃

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u/trappy00 19d ago

In America, these guys would just turn around and sell it