where in the united states was crack cocaine discovered?

Answer 1

I am gonna go out on a limb here and state that it started in a economically deprived area that is primarily african american in demographics....as all my brotha's say when selling a rock to the man, that aint' soap mother fu*&er..now pay da man.

Answer 2

People inventing new drugs don't usually keep good records- if it was ever discovered who invented the process of making crack out of cocaine then he would probably get locked up in prison for the rest of his life (if he's not already there). There is no way of knowing exactly where it came from... The predecessor to crack was called free-basing and has been around for almost as long as cocaine...

Answer 3

It's not exactly something that needed to be "discovered". The melting point, solubility, pH, etc. of cocaine has been known for over a century. It takes middle school chemistry knowledge to understand the concept of alkaloids, acids, and bases.

When did freebase cocaine become so marketable? Nobody honestly knows, hardly anyone wrote or talked much about it until it started getting talked about as an 'epidemic'.

Answer 4

In the early 1980s, the majority of cocaine being shipped to the United States was coming through the Bahamas. Soon there was a huge glut of cocaine powder in these islands, which caused the price to drop by as much as 80 percent. Faced with dropping prices for their illegal product, drug dealers made a shrewd business decision to convert the powder to "crack," a solid smokeable form of cocaine, that could be sold in smaller quantities, to more people. It was cheap, simple to produce, ready to use, and highly profitable for dealers to develop. As early as 1981, reports of crack were appearing in Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, and in the Caribbean.

Initially, crack had higher purity than street powder (until crack later became "blow-up" or "whip dope"). Around 1981, powder cocaine was available on the street at an average of 55 percent purity for $100 per gram, and crack was sold at average purity levels of 80-plus percent for the same price. In some major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Philadelphia, one dosage unit of crack could be obtained for as little as US$2.50. Never before had any form of cocaine been available at such low prices and at such high purity. More important from a marketing standpoint, it produced an instant high and its users became addicted in a very short time. Eventually, Caribbean immigrants taught young people in Miami how to produce crack, and they in turn went into business in the United States.

Crack appeared in Miami in 1982, and at first was considered to be only a Miami phenomenon. That was proven wrong when it first appeared in New York City in December, 1983. By 1986, crack had a strong hold on the ghettos of New York City. The distribution and use of the drug exploded that same year and by the end of 1986, was available in 28 states and the District of Columbia. According to the 1985-1986 National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee Report, crack was available in Los Angeles, Detroit, New York City, St. Louis, Atlanta, Boston, Kansas City, Miami, Newark, San Francisco, Buffalo, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, and Phoenix.

In 1985, cocaine-related hospital emergencies rose by 12 percent, from 23,500 to 26,300. In 1986, they increased 110 percent, from 26,300 to 55,200. Between 1984 and 1987, cocaine incidents increased fourfold. By 1987, crack was reported to be available in the District of Columbia and all but four states in the US.

Some scholars have cited the crack "epidemic" as an example of a moral panic, noting that the explosion in use and trafficking of the drug actually occurred after the media coverage of the drug as an "epidemic."

Answer 5

In a flophouse on the corner of Cherry Street and Commerce

Answer 6

i believe its been discovered about everywhere in the country - especially urban environments. police discover it here, police discover it there, it is a very common illegal substance. don't you watch the news?

Answer 7

Funny question! You make it sound as though it is some ore pulled from a mountainside.