opium and cocaine both have medical applications that all hospitals rely on, they should be state controlled and given out as needed for addictions too.
I wouldnt get too caught up on the ‘crack’ differation, it is literally just cocaine that has had its impurities removed and the seperation between ‘cocaine’ and ‘crack’ is primarly a racial one made up by US police to give black people heavier sentances. ‘crack’ for black, ‘cocaine’ for white people; they have different sentancing for a reason, despite being chemically the same.
the reason why this is, is primarly how different classes engage with cocaine; a white person in the US is more likely to be able to buy purer, powdered verisions and doesnt need to worry about the product being cut with lethal stuff; lower classes get cocaine thats passed a lot further down the food chain, and that is sold with much more impurities.
In order to address this, you need to ‘purify’ it by removing all the adulterents, usually in a dangerous procsess. The method they use to seperate crack from cocaine is literally just ‘do they have a microwave or stove with cocaine residue and a glass pipe to vaporize it with’
opium and cocaine both have medical applications that all hospitals rely on, they should be state controlled and given out as needed for addictions too.
I wouldnt get too caught up on the ‘crack’ differation, it is literally just cocaine that has had its impurities removed and the seperation between ‘cocaine’ and ‘crack’ is primarly a racial one made up by US police to give black people heavier sentances. ‘crack’ for black, ‘cocaine’ for white people; they have different sentancing for a reason, despite being chemically the same.
the reason why this is, is primarly how different classes engage with cocaine; a white person in the US is more likely to be able to buy purer, powdered verisions and doesnt need to worry about the product being cut with lethal stuff; lower classes get cocaine thats passed a lot further down the food chain, and that is sold with much more impurities.
In order to address this, you need to ‘purify’ it by removing all the adulterents, usually in a dangerous procsess. The method they use to seperate crack from cocaine is literally just ‘do they have a microwave or stove with cocaine residue and a glass pipe to vaporize it with’