Have you ever tried crack cocaine?

[Guest]

Hi all,

I was wondering if any one ever tried crack just to see what it was like.

I have heard that it was very addictive - to the point that as soon as you took a puff you'd be addicted. Is this true?

Has anyone ever smoked a few rocks with a friend maybe for a couple of times and just didn't really like that particular high and then said to yourself, "I don't like this high!", and never did it again?

Babe,
xoxo

[rider014]

Hmmm

I'm thinking one vice is enough

[Alexis]

Babe,
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Well.. you can ask Rob Ford.. lol..

It's highly addictive and very bad..

Before crack and even still today Rock Cocaine or freebase cocaine has been extremely addictive..

While cocaine isn't chemically addictive like nicotine, alcohol or heroin for example is it psychologically addictive and very much so..

Smoking rock cocaine is equally or more addictive than injecting it..

I've never heard of people trying it and then never doing it again..

I've seen it destroy people and literally leave them dead..

People I knew.. cared about.. friends..

[TSFantasia]

Go ahead the last 5 people who took a hit are fine

Well I'm sure its like playing Russian roulette hoping that you won't be that person who immediately becomes hideously addicted! But for me no thanks haven't gone beyond smoking the odd joint and that very rarely. I will stick with the legal drugs wine and beer and cocktails

[Raging Bob]

Never....but I know a guy who had a thriving business with 3 locations, and snorted it all up his nose and lost everything.

[Rockheart]

I have tried Crack and it is just Cocaine.
You can do a little then never do it again, it is not instantly addictive.
It depends who you are.

It is not really any different from powdered cocaine, other than it is more pure and you cannot snort it.

Basically Cocaine will usually come in it's normal powder form it can be a maximum of 86% pure.
However powdered cocaine is generally cut and can be as little as 10% pure.

Basically Crack or Freebase is the purified form of Cocaine.
So after cooking some powder to Crack, your cocaine will now be 100% pure and appears as rocks.

The main reason addicts you see on the street are smoking crack is because it is much easier than trying to snort powder.
Break off a chunk and put it in your pipe and you are done.

The only real difference between regular powder cocaine and crack is the potency. Crack is pure and when you smoke it, the effect is almost instant. When you snort cocaine the effect is more slow released so the high lasts longer than smoking crack.
So part of the reason Crack seems more addictive is because the high is shorter, so they do it more often.

However Cigarettes are far more physically addictive than Cocaine.
Cocaine is impulsive and usually you will do it until it is gone.
Most of it is chasing the dragon, where your subsequent hits or lines are never as good as the first one.
However when all the Coke is gone, people can get over the impluse in a few days.
With cigarettes you can quit for a year and still have cravings for a smoke, even if there is none around.
Cocaine addiction is usually based on supply, if you don't have a steady supply you won't become addicted.
The impluse fades over time.

Crack is to Cocaine, as Hash is to Marijuana.

[TSFantasia]

" YURI (V.O.) I never understood what separated the recreational drug user from the habitual, the functional addict from the dysfunctional. But for the grace of God, it could have been me snorting lines as long as the Belt Parkway." Nicolas Cage's character's quote at the end of this clip from Lord of War. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJjBZoopPXw

[ladyluv]

I have never smoked crack and I wouldn't. I have done cocaine many times ( a lot ) in my early/mid twenties and it was fun once in awhile, but it's expensive and sometimes it's cut with God knows what. Coke also seems to make you need to take a shit immediately lol, and I basically can't get sexually aroused when on it. Also you can drink loads of booze and smoke all kinds of weed and it has little effect because the coke is so powerful, and as a result hangovers can be about 3 days long. I find it to be a crappy buzz to be quite honest. I don't like it, so I don't do it any more. Barely drink anymore either. Quit smoking 2 yrs ago too. Also haven't seen an escort in about a year. Doing good

[Rockheart]

I have never smoked crack and I wouldn't. I have done cocaine many times ( a lot ) in my early/mid twenties and it was fun once in awhile, but it's expensive and sometimes it's cut with God knows what. Coke also seems to make you need to take a shit immediately lol, and I basically can't get sexually aroused when on it. Also you can drink loads of booze and smoke all kinds of weed and it has little effect because the coke is so powerful, and as a result hangovers can be about 3 days long. I find it to be a crappy buzz to be quite honest. I don't like it, so I don't do it any more. Barely drink anymore either. Quit smoking 2 yrs ago too. Also haven't seen an escort in about a year. Doing good

At least with crack you know what you are getting, pure cocaine.
The powder you don't know what the hell could be in it.
I would say crack is healthier than the powder in moderation, as the process removes anything else.

[Rockheart]

" YURI (V.O.) I never understood what separated the recreational drug user from the habitual, the functional addict from the dysfunctional. But for the grace of God, it could have been me snorting lines as long as the Belt Parkway." Nicolas Cage's character's quote at the end of this clip from Lord of War. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJjBZoopPXw

So I poured another strong one, and chopped a line from here to Texas.
Cause I lost another good one, she's on the midnight train to Memphis.

[Alexis]

Crack Is Not Freebase Rock

Well.. Time for Rock 101..

I unfortunately have experience with this..

Crack is not freebase rock.

Crack is shitty rock that is cut with who knows what to make it fluffy and bigger in physical size.. ie; a buffer..

Crack is generally yellowish in colour and soft where as base is very hard white and opalescent..

Freebase Rock


Crack..


Many years ago (my teens) when I was involved with this shit, selling it.. There were 2 types of coke on the market, Colombian and Peruvian..

Pure Colombian shit was cheap and not the best, often a tinge of yellow to it, it came in broken clumps and chunks..

Pure Peruvian was flaky like pastry, pure white and opalescent like mother of pearl, it came in whole bricks..

When cooking it down to a rock the Peruvian returned 25% greater weight as it was 95%+ pure VS Colombian at 75-80%..

When in powder the Peruvian stuff was way more profitable as you could step on it 100% and it was still better than the Columbia stuff without stepping on it.. If you didn't cut the Peruvian at least 50% you couldn't snort it.. too strong and make your nose bleed..

I watched countless people destroying their lives, work, relationships, health etc..

Meanwhile I threw $5,000+ parties on Saturdays for all the girls I knew.. not joking.. $5,000+ wholesale..

Then one of my friends died.. I realized what the fuck I was doing..

It's horrible, evil shit.. I hate it.. everything to do with it.. heroin too..

The second time I got involved in it.. cost me everything I had and everything I loved..

I've been clean of all hard drugs for 13.5 years..

[TSFantasia]

So I poured another strong one, and chopped a line from here to Texas.
Cause I lost another good one, she's on the midnight train to Memphis.

Gotta luv Youtube

[TSFantasia]

Train wreck of human misery & death

I watched countless people destroying their lives, work, relationships, health etc..

Meanwhile I threw $5,000+ parties on Saturdays for all the girls I knew.. not joking.. $5,000+ wholesale..

Then one of my friends died.. I realized what the fuck I was doing..

It's horrible, evil shit.. I hate it.. everything to do with it.. heroin too..

The second time I got involved in it.. cost me everything I had and everything I loved..

I've been clean of all hard drugs for 13.5 years..

Agree totally hard drugs... cocaine, , crack, heroin, crystal meth, etc is "horrible, evil shit" !! I've seen friends and acquaintances become almost unrecognizable ,whether in physical appearance or personality and character. Recently had an ex, who I helped out for a few days because she was down and out. She's been doing coke for the last year. For my troubles she stole my laptop and I-phone to pawn/exchange for drugs. With this hard shit it's like playing Russian roulette alright but with 5 bullets in the chamber not 1!! And it's highly unlikely that a person will get away unscathed. Besides that the drug trade is an EPIC GLOBAL disaster it is a Lac Megantic train wreck of catastrophic proportions. It is a Typhoon Haiyan of human suffering, misery and death. It has nothing to do with the lines on the table at the party. For me its the toll of human lives lost and misery - drugs wars, executions, innocent bystander deaths, OD deaths, orphaned kids, (parents addicted, ODed, in prison) etc, etc, that is the trail from point A (source) and B (consumer). May seem dramatic but I think is statistically accurate.

[Rockheart]

Well.. Time for Rock 101..

I unfortunately have experience with this..

Crack is not freebase rock.

Crack is shitty rock that is cut with who knows what to make it fluffy and bigger in physical size.. ie; a buffer..

Crack is generally yellowish in colour and soft where as base is very hard white and opalescent..

Freebase Rock
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Crack..
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Many years ago (my teens) when I was involved with this shit, selling it.. There were 2 types of coke on the market, Colombian and Peruvian..

Pure Colombian shit was cheap and not the best, often a tinge of yellow to it, it came in broken clumps and chunks..

Pure Peruvian was flaky like pastry, pure white and opalescent like mother of pearl, it came in whole bricks..

When cooking it down to a rock the Peruvian returned 25% greater weight as it was 95%+ pure VS Colombian at 75-80%..

When in powder the Peruvian stuff was way more profitable as you could step on it 100% and it was still better than the Columbia stuff without stepping on it.. If you didn't cut the Peruvian at least 50% you couldn't snort it.. too strong and make your nose bleed..

I watched countless people destroying their lives, work, relationships, health etc..

Meanwhile I threw $5,000+ parties on Saturdays for all the girls I knew.. not joking.. $5,000+ wholesale..

Then one of my friends died.. I realized what the fuck I was doing..

It's horrible, evil shit.. I hate it.. everything to do with it.. heroin too..

The second time I got involved in it.. cost me everything I had and everything I loved..

I've been clean of all hard drugs for 13.5 years..

Crack and freebase are the same thing, period.

If you buy actual crack from someone it may be cut or rolled up with something, that is probably why you noticed a difference.
Sort of like the difference between Aspirin and Anacin, they may look different but they are both ASA.
If you make it yourself it will always be pure cocaine, and almost always yellowish.

You use some chemical to free the base from the other components which is the Cocaine Esther.(or whatever it is called.)
You either use Sodium Bicarbonate or Ammonium Chloride(?) to make it.

The colour difference is merely the variety of coke used and possibly the cut.

Possibly your picture of the freebase rock is not cooked well and has some Soda left in that is why it is so white.
Most freebase or crack that is cooked properly is yellow.

The variety of cocaine does not have anything to do with how much you get back.
It has everything to do with how pure the beginning product was
The difference you were probably seeing was the different solvents they use in different countries to make the cocaine.
Columbia used Acetone which is on of the best, maybe the people in Peru used something else.
This would lead to varying strengths of Cocaine.
I saw a documentary on this an the DEA has been trying to stop the flow of cocaine, by limiting solvent shipments to south America.
However the solvent used is the reason the coke is white and fluffy or chunky and yellowish.
But the solvents they use on the Coca plant pulls in other stuff, which is why the product is never pure.

As I say crack and freebase is pure cocaine, there is no difference other than purity.
Sometimes there is sugars and stuff you cannot cook out so your rock may appear different colours.
Your example picture probably looks like candy because it was cut with dextrose or something like that.

It is just a farce that Crack is worse than cocaine or freebase, it is all the same shit.
Cocaine.

I learned all this from a Chemistry major and research.
I found the chemical process of making the rock more interesting than the drugs themselves.

[candyhilton]

Drugs are for idiots.

I dont drink, smoke or do drugs... never have... and never will.