Dan Nosowitz unpacks the biology of drug mules smuggling large amounts of drugs inside their rectum, a practice known as “booty bumping”:
The problem I kept running into in trying to figure out how much cocaine you could fit in your butthole is that, well, there isn’t really an upper limit. It’s all about conditioning and practice. That said, let’s take that 800 mL as an example upper limit. Given the density of cocaine hydrochloride, that converts to about 0.97 kilograms of cocaine, or very nearly the size of one of those big bricks you see confiscated on the news. And that 800 mL isn’t unheard-of; it’s probably on the low end for someone who performs a lot of rectal stretching activities.
Update from a reader:
Booty bumping is taking drugs via the anus, where they’re easily absorbed. It’s a real problem in the gay community here in San Francisco since lots of drugs are corrosive and can leave wide-open opportunities for infections to take hold, thus increasing the odds of any given STI.
The more you know!
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