Sugar Is Similar to Cocaine?
Question by Marina: Sugar is similar to Cocaine?
I read somewhere that sugar IS only one molecule away from being Cocaine. How true is this and in what way?
Best answer:
Answer by Hippie Obama
I’l go snort some now and come back to tell you the results.
Answer by Neocon Pro 2012
This is true and sugar is a stimulant like cocaine but one is illegal and traded by drug cartels the other is a common commodity.
Well, since sugar is a single molecule, and cocaine is a single molecule, that’s technically correct. It is also one molecule away from salt, LSD, and diatomic oxygen (that’s the oxygen that you breathe). Any single molecule is one molecule away from every other single molecule.
A molecule is a collection of atoms. The formula for sugar is C12-H22-O11. The formula for cocaine is C17-H21-N-O4. Not too similar. Cocaine has an extra 5 carbon atoms, one less hydrogen, a nitrogen that sugar doesn’t have at all, and seven fewer oxygen atoms. So it isn’t one atom away from it either.
So, your statement is not at all true. Not even close. The fact that they share carbon, hydrogen and oxygen puts them in a huge group of molecules that are involved with organic things.
So, whatever you “read somewhere” (dubious reference) is false.