Practical: Drug scene

Drug (Cocaine Scene)

Equipment needed 

• Paracetamol tablets (Or any white coloured tablet)
• Credit card
• Table
• Knife or object to crush tablets with

Method

Step One: Gather some plain white tablets and crush them up using a stone,knife, rolling pin or anything that will crush tablets to a near fine powder.

As we can see here I used the the bottom of a knife handle to crush the tablets.

I decided to crush the tablets within a roll of tape because as i tried to crush the tablets they would crack and fly off the table, so the roll of tape is to keep of the tablet powder in one place without losing any.

Moreover, the roll of tape made it easier for me to together the tablet powder up together in a pile to make it easier to crush into a finer powder.

Step Two: Having crushed up the Paracetamol to look like cocaine you need to use a credit card to then mix up the Paracetamol powder into thine sharp lines as if someone who does cocaine was about to snort them or a realistic effect.

I used a card after using the knife just to get the tablet powder that little bit finer which worked successfully in creating a more authentic fake drug.

After that I used my credit card to split the powder into two rough lines of fake cocaine for me to then make them neater and sharper.

I first I experimented with making two lines of cocaine to see what it would look like and I think it looks good as people who use cocaine don't just do two one line and leave, due to the nature of the drug they take a lot of it frequently, so two lines portrays this better.

I then tried the cocaine with just one line and even though it looks authentic I still believe having more than one line is a more realistic and believable scenario than just one quick line.

Evaluation

Pros

• The tablets an equipment are easy to obtain.
• It isn't illegal.
• It looks authentic and like cocaine.
• Its easy to make the powder in fake cocaine lines.
• This task can be repeated anywhere due to it simplicity and few pieces of equipment needed.
• Isn't time consuming.

Cons

• Probably  would need to make the powder finer than it already was to make as authentic as possible.
• Practice a little more on getting the lines of fake cocaine to be straighter and sharp for a more effective look.