False Myths

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Originally Posted by GavinGill

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Myth: Crack is purer than powder cocaine, and is more potent.

Fact: There is no pharmacological difference between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Crack cocaine is simply powder cocaine which has been converted into a solid "rock" form that may be smoked. The effects of smoking crack cocaine may be more intense, but this is a result of the mode of ingestion rather than the drug's purity. Regardless, it is difficult to rationalize the extreme sentencing disparity between crack and cocaine.

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I believe crack cocaine is actually LESS pure than cocaine. It is made by mixing cocaine with some other substance... That's where it became a problem in poor communities. Because cocaine is so expensive, coke dealers made it into crack so they would have more drugs to sell, and the fact that crack became more addictive just made it even better for them because they could charge outrageous prices for it

They're both cut, pure cocaine is practically impossible to find the United States. The difference is the ingestion process of coke renders all the shit it gets cut with to useless filth while the baking soda you mix crack with intensifies its effect on the nervous system. A small amount of cocaine can produce a lot of crack while if you cut it with an equal amount of crap you still only have a small amount of cocaine.