Unsure if anyone has covered Crackets new arguments about his child testing positive for cocaine, but I missed it when he last went on NLO to kvetch about Aaron and only just saw KC cover it on elissa clips, so feel free to rate me late if this has already been done to death.
To summarise, Nick claims that the metabolite from cocaine which he calls
benzocognine was found to
"metabolise outside the body, on skin, in damp conditions". That there are papers out there that show this, and that it happens - claiming to quote the paper -
"on a sweaty scalp, or a sweaty area like an armpit or something like that."
I wont bore you with the list of metabolites of cocaine, but the one he seems to be referencing is
benzoylecgonine. Looking at very easily accessible sources, like
Wikipedia or
ScienceDirect, they explain that this particular metabolite is one of two major metabolites that form when cocaine is metabolised. It is specifically targeted by testing because there is no other known chemical other than cocaine which the body breaks down into benzoylecgonine. The body does this using
Cholinesterase of which there are two types, they are found in different parts of the body - but the main thing to consider here is that they are not found within sweat. So what on Earth is Nick even talking about here?
It goes without saying that Nick is almost certainly lying, but I will grant there is an off-chance that he is confused because he is so desperate for any amount of plausible deniability that he dosed his child with cocaine. Personally, I think Nick has read the same articles from ScienceDirect, because if you look at some of the suggested articles that follow on from the benzoylecgonine you will find a reference used in another article contains the following:
"Biotransformation of cocaine. The hydrolytic metabolites benzoylecgonine and ecgonine methylester are formed in blood and can be formed also under hydrolytic conditions in hair or during sample preparation". Given Nick is an overconfident boob, who desperately googled everything he could about this topic to find anything he could use, is it possible he believes
"hydrolytic conditions during hair or during sample preparation" means that it occurs in water, or in sweat, and does not realise it is talking about a type of enzyme...
We will probably never know, because Nick saying he should put something together on this is less likely to happen than his return to doing trial streams. All I will say is that reading of all the summaries that are out there, the only way this particular metabolite is formed naturally is through cocaine being metabolised by those enzymes.
would go full Fatal Attraction on his ass out of coke-fuelled homosexual rage.
