I never really did a lot of drugs besides smoking pot a few times but I tried crack once at a party in college and I felt pretty ashamed of myself immediately after despite high. I didn’t try it again and am actually a sober adult now, not because I had a drug problem but I just grew out of wanting to try them and never liked to drink alcohol.
I never met anyone else who would ever admit to trying it though or even cocaine despite statistically knowing many people have haha. Any crack smokers on lemmy?
I smoked crack in my teens. I think it’s an unfair stigma to judge crack worse than cocaine - even though I know you’re not proclaiming that or anything.
Like so many stupid things that don’t make sense, it originated in racism.
Basically, the Reagan administration realized that more black people used crack than powder cocaine and it was the other way around for white people, so they made the sentencing for crack harsher by a margin of 100:1 to make sure there were more black victims of the War On Drugs than white ones.
This, combined with the Reagan, Bush, and afair also Clinton administrations demonizing crack users as the ultimate example of “it’s their own fault for the moral failing of doing street drugs” bullshit, and the for profit yellow media happily following their lead, is why even people without a bigoted bone in their bodies still think that crack is a hundred times worse than the pharmacologically identical powder cocaine.
I would be interested to see how the numbers of black people addicted to crack in the 80s compares to the number of white people addicted to prescription opioids today.
Which is more bioavailable? That would be a more sensical basis to sort if judge them without speaking to the cutting agents
I was under the impression that they were the same thing. (It might surprise you that I have never done any illegal drugs.)
I mean they are but technically not. I believe once you cook up cocaine with baking soda and water to make crack(at least that’s how we used to do it) that the actual chemical composition changes and that makes it different.
Someone feel free to fact check me on that cuz I’m just going off the dome.
I double checked and wrote up the explanation in a different post but at least according to Wikipedia, you are correct.
The simple explanation is that the classy drug known as “Cocaine” is technically Cocaine Hydrochloride. The previously mentioned reaction removes the Hydrogen and Chlorine ions leaving you with Cocaine without the “Hydrochloride” aka Freebase Cocaine aka Crack.
Well… Good to know, I suppose. Thanks for the information!
they are, its just different methods of ingestion.