Crack - where did this drug come from?

Question

I have never in my life seen a drug that can chemically remove a persons could before -

I have never used it but my god I have seen what it does to people and I have to ask where did this drug come from and how on earth did it become as popular as it is ?

Should have read "chemically remove a persons sould before".

Correction three "could remove a persons soul before

Answer 1

Crack cocaine

Due to the dangers of using ether to produce pure freebase cocaine, cocaine producers began to omit the step of removing the freebase cocaine precipitate from the ammonia mixture. Typically, filtration processes are also omitted. The end result of this process is that the cut, in addition to the ammonium salt (NH4Cl), remains in the freebase cocaine after the mixture is evaporated. The “rock” that is thus formed also contains a small amount of water. Sodium bicarbonate is also preferred in preparing the freebase, for when commonly "cooked" the ratio is 50/50 to 40/60 percent cocaine/bicarbonate. This acts as a filler which extends the overall profitability of illicit sales. Crack cocaine may be reprocessed in small quantities with water (users refer to the resultant product as "cookback"). This removes the residual bicarbonate, and any adulterants or cuts that have been used in the previous handling of the cocaine and leaves a relatively pure, anhydrous cocaine base.

When the rock is heated, this water boils, making a crackling sound (hence the onomatopoeic “crack”). Baking soda is now most often used as a base rather than ammonia for reasons of lowered stench and toxicity; however, any weak base can be used to make crack cocaine. Strong bases, such as sodium hydroxide, tend to hydrolyze some of the cocaine into non-psychoactive ecgonine.

The net reaction when using baking soda (also called sodium bicarbonate, with a chemical formula of NaHCO3) is:

Coc-H+Cl– + NaHCO3 → Coc + H2O + CO2 + NaCl
Crack is unique because it offers a strong cocaine experience in small, low-priced packages. In the United States, crack cocaine is often sold in small, inexpensive dosage units frequently known as “nickels”, “nickel rocks”, or "bumps" (referring to the price of $5.00), and also “dimes”, “dime rocks”, or "boulders" and sometimes as “twenties”, “solids", "slabs" and “forties.” The quantity provided by such a purchase varies depending upon many factors, such as local availability, which is affected by geographic location. A twenty may yield a quarter gram or half gram on average, yielding 30 minutes to an hour of effect if hits are taken every few minutes. After the $20 or $40 mark, crack and powder cocaine are sold in grams or fractions of ounces. Many inner-city addicts with a regular dealer will “work a corner,” taking money from anyone who wants crack, making a buy from the dealer, then delivering part of the product while keeping some for themselves.

At the intermediate level, crack cocaine is sold either by weight in ounces, referred to by terms such as "eight-ball" (one-eighth of an ounce) or "quarter" and "half" respectively. In the alternate, $20 pieces of crack cocaine are aggregated in units of "fifty pack" and "hundred pack", referring to the number of pieces. At this level, the wholesale price is approximately half the street sale price.

Crack cocaine was extremely popular in the mid- and late 1980s in a period known as the Crack Epidemic, especially in inner cities, though its popularity declined through the 1990s in the United States. There were major anti-drug campaigns launched in the U.S. to try and cull its popularity, the most popular being a series of ads featuring the slogan "The Thrill Can Kill". 1 However, there has been an increase in popularity within Canada in the recent years, where it has been estimated that the drug has become a multi-billion dollar 'industry'. Due to its popularity, there are many different street names for crack cocaine.

Answer 2

"Crack is a smokable, rapidly reacting form of cocaine base, which is processed from cocaine hydrochloride. It usually appears as off-white chips, rocks, or chunks. There are many theories about the origin of the crack form of cocaine. It is probable that cocaine traffickers, seeking a broader market for an existing glut of the drug, developed the process to expand their user base, since this method allows small amounts to be sold at very low prices.

Soon after crack first appeared, in the early to mid-1980s, crack abuse swept through the country. Three factors contributed to this: first, the drug was cheap and affordable; second, it was easy to smoke; and third, its effects were rapid and intense. Smoking crack brings users to a euphoric state twice as fast as "snorting." Because of this rapid high, crack is more quickly addicting; it is also cheap enough to be available to poor and young users. This has made crack an extremely marketable product."

Answer 3

It came from the desire to get higher than before. The first answerer is correct in how it was developed. It became so popular because of the effect it has on the brain, and its addictiveness.


And it is not synthetic.

Answer 4

Crack is synthetic, it is a man made substance that is created in illegal labs. It is chemically similar to cocaine but much more addctive (but not always) then other mood elevating illegal drugs. Stay away!!!

Answer 5

easy to make and cheap and very addicting . Think of it as the walmart of drugs.

Answer 6

the cia made it.