The documentary on Crack that is playing on Netflix is really worth watching. I thought I had a good understanding but it was so much worse and really shows why we are where we are as a country today. When you think about the fact that we went from 300,000 prisoners to 2M prisoners from around 1980 to 2000 it is crazy. What really struck me was what I was doing during that time and I sure as hell wasn't living a sober life because there was some huge government crack down on drug use, but yeah I didn't fit the profile.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: 19.5 Degrees FaceOnMars
on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 – 05:21 pm
Currently "reading"
Currently "reading" (listening) to:
The New Jim Crow (Alexander)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D. Portland_ken
on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 – 05:38 pm
"Crack is wack." - Whitney
"Crack is wack." - Whitney Houston.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD ntfdaway
on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 – 08:42 pm
Never once smoked "crack".
Never once smoked "crack".
Smoked pounds of free-base though.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Is forgiveness possible? Number 6
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 06:30 am
free-base IS crack
free-base IS crack
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank Briank
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 06:54 am
There you go, Mark, you were
There you go, Mark, you were an unknowing crack-head!
Base, while on LSD, is really fun. It may even rival the LSD/nitrous combo.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD ntfdaway
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 07:25 am
Six, freebase is when you buy
Six, freebase is when you buy high quality cocaine hydrochloride and remove an OH-.
Crack is whatever combination of drugs some dipshit concocted to sell on the street. Speed and PCP, shit like that was/is often added to the cocaine.
I was freebasing long before Richard Pryor set himself on fire. Been almost 30 yrs. since I quit.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lucky Day Timmy Hoover
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 09:35 am
Turns out crack is the same
Turns out crack is the same as freebasing, just saved because there's no flammable liquids involved.
https://www.healthline.com/health/freebasing#experience
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Hitchhiker awaiting "true call" Knotesau
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 09:41 am
I think we just added baking
I think we just added baking soda. Loved it on joints.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: DZ blackrock
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 09:46 am
"We don't do crack. We
Over heard in th 80's:
"We don't do crack. We freebase, we're all white here"
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank mikeedwardsetc
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 11:16 am
In the early 80s, we were
In the early 80s, we were calling it freebase; by the early 90s, it was just crack.
> I think we just added baking soda.
And water, of course.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank Briank
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 11:18 am
Heat until you see one bubble
Heat until you see one bubble > swirl > heat until you see 3 bubbles
Bunch of goddam degenerates!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: aiq aiq
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 11:39 am
Hope Pillow Boy doesn't
Hope Pillow Boy doesn't relapse after his business is gutted by the Dominion lawsuit.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sycamore Slough Disco Stu
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 12:24 pm
Never tasted the stuff, which
Never tasted the stuff, which is probably good. Heard that it's habit-forming.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: free bird fly high
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 01:30 pm
The Coolies - Crack Pipe
The Coolies - Crack Pipe (Burnin')
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8h9ja28J_DU
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino kxela
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 01:55 pm
I guess I shouldn't be
I guess I shouldn't be surprised on this board. My friends used the ammonia method, but then one of them got busted in NJ driving up from FL with a couple of pounds in the trunk. Good thing he was white - he only did a couple of years. The reason he was driving up was because he never got his FedEx shipment. Apparently no one in the country got the their shipment from FL which means some guy at the FedEx office in FL made out with about 20 pounds that day.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Tim Wheres My Flashbacks
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 02:00 pm
Never did crack, did coke 5-6
Never did crack, did coke 5-6 times, didn't like that either, I knew lots of people who got some quality stuff. People driving from states to get.
No thank you
Then I met this dude with meth......
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD ntfdaway
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 05:23 pm
Freebase is when you doit
Freebase is when you doit yourself. Crack is what you buy on the streets.
Done ammonia. Mostly did baking soda. But at the beginning, we used to dissolve cocaine in water in a test tube. We then added I think sodium hydroxide but not sure. The white cocaine would precipitate to the bottom of the test tube. Keep adding the drops until no precipitate forms. Shake well add hexane and shake well again. Then, when the hexane separates and rises to the top, Remove by dropper and squirt out on a mirror. The hexane evaporates leaving white crystals growing on the mirror. A razor to scrape it up and it is ready to smoke. I wish we had had dab rigs back then.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Frank3 frank3
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 05:36 pm
thought this was a bobby_t
thought this was a bobby_t thread
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank Briank
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 05:47 pm
I was a test tube and ammonia
I was a test tube and ammonia guy.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: skyjunk fabes
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 06:44 pm
I spent one night free basing
I spent one night free basing and my friend the free base head kept running to the windows peeking out thru the curtains and was paranoid as fuck. Also there was nothing in between the time to cook it and smoke it, and run to the windows and peek, just a cycle of no fun. I get high to enjoy myself, this was too much like a job that sucked imo.
I lived in Hallandale just between Ft. Lauderdale and Miami during the Miami Vice Cocaine Cowboy era. Not many people smoked weed down there at the time cause the coke was so good and so cheap. In Ohio coke was 90 - 120 bucks a gram. Miami 90 - 100 dollar eight balls, and it was clean, and there was a bunch of fun to be had in between lines. Just glad I like weed more, I have always been the oddball. Oh and the Latin women, fun times indeed
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Probable Cosby dickyb
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 06:56 pm
^"I wish we had had dab rigs
^"I wish we had had dab rigs back then."- that may be why you're still alive, brother.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank mikeedwardsetc
on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 – 07:07 pm
> my friend the free base
> my friend the free base head kept running to the windows peeking out thru the curtains and was paranoid as fuck
I had a lady friend who did the same thing. Do her bump and then peek out through the blinds until it was time for another bump. Window patrol. And the peephole in the front door was even worse.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sycamore Slough Disco Stu
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 12:17 am
so I knew this guy who had a
so I knew this guy who had a batch of Really Great Stuff, liek Rolling Stones level stuff, and he was sniffing it maybe too much, then he got all Paranoid and was certain the cops were coming, so he flushed the stash.
Too bad because the cops were not coming, and it was just the best Stuff.
Probably 40 years ago all that happened.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 12:29 am
>>>we went from 300,000
>>>we went from 300,000 prisoners to 2M prisoners from around 1980 to 2000<<<
Incarceration is a for-profit operation, right?
I guess those numbers aren't too surprising then.
>>>Freebase is when you doit yourself. Crack is what you buy on the streets<<<
So, you were just doing "the good stuff"?
I'm weak in general. I'm glad I never enjoyed the powders, or was ever exposed to "the good stuff".
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline Localcountyline
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 02:04 am
Many of us here remember
Many of us here remember variations on this headline 36 years ago today. (The bust was on 1/18).
LA Times:
"Police Say Rock Star Was Free-Basing In Car."
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 02:49 am
>>>The bust was on 1/18<<<
>>>The bust was on 1/18<<<
Our hero.
Not quite perfect.
"On Friday, January 18, 1985, around 12:30 in the afternoon, SFPD Officer Mark Gamble steers his Honda police motorcycle toward a black BMW with expired September 1984 tags parked on the north side of Middle Drive in Golden Gate Park (north of Metson Lake). Approaching the driver's side window, he finds the vehicle's sole occupant "looking down at his hands in which he held a piece of tin foil paper which had a brown, sticky appearing substance on it. He looked up at me and quickly shoved the tin foil out of view to the right side of the driver's seat. He started reaching all over the base of his seat acting very nervous."
Officer Gamble:
"I told him to open his window more and he started the engine and opened the power window. I asked him for his driver's license and the vehicle registration. He said he did not have his driver's license and he gave the registration to me. He verbally identified himself as "Jerry Garcia, born 8/1/42". ... I looked into the car and saw an open briefcase open on the front passenger seat. Inside the briefcase I saw several other pieces of tin foil with brown residue and burn marks. Also, I saw the baggie of paper bindles, the glass cooker and [?pro?] and the cigarette lighters. I also smelled a slight smell of something burned coming from inside the car."
As I saw this quote I discover for the first time that Jerry got busted on Middle Drive, which is a smaller, lesser side road in the park, almost certainly used to avoid the very thing that happened.
Oh Jerry.
What a guy. In some ways, greater than the greats, in other ways...
Not so much.
Just like us!
derp!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Jay Siobud
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 08:09 am
>>It may even rival the LSD
>>It may even rival the LSD/nitrous combo
Just had the pleasure of huffing a 20 pounder last week. I've always abstained from cocaine products.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary Rasmataz
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 08:42 am
One hell of a nite, who else
One hell of a nite, who else was here besides me ?
10/31/1986: Crackdown @ Madison Square Garden | Concert Archives
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/crackdown
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: JP (J Bomb) Tatters
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 09:11 am
I hung out with some Wall
I hung out with some Wall Street guys and on more than one occasion, saw them smoke piles of crack until the sun came up, then shower and put on their suits and bound out the door for work like nothing had happened.
I was amazed but more importantly, questioned the validity of a profession where being cracked-out-to-the-gills seemed not to matter.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jonaspond Jonas
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 09:18 am
Drinks started at 10... rinse
Drinks started at 10... rinse and repeat. It was a game for these clods to blow 5k in a 3 hour bar sitting and then smoke base, blow lines and fuck anything in their way. As long as the bank account was full and Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon was family time. Monday morning it started all over.
Base is not crack. The concept of cooking it for sure but the end product no. We used to refer to crack as Tonka toys. More plastic cooked into it then cocaine.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: GDTRFB StrawBud
on Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 12:09 pm
I have always avoided and
I have always avoided and never indulged in powders or cocaine products at all so this thread is a little 'fascinating' to me in a way. But anyway, yes, I worked at CBOE (options trade floor in Chicago) and in general those guys partied way harder and more proudly than other folks in any other industry I had been around, including restaurant/bar, which is a feat in and of itself. Hookers, mistresses, blow, drunken lunches, secret condos, etc, all in the shadows of quiet, upscale suburban family lives. It was pretty disgusting actually but they would spring heavily for drinks and dinners in the finest places when shit was going their way in the market but look out when things slid in the other direction.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Is forgiveness possible? Number 6
on Friday, January 22, 2021 – 05:52 am
>>Freebase is when you doit
>>Freebase is when you doit yourself. Crack is what you buy on the streets.
>>"We don't do crack. We freebase, we're all white here"
"I didn't rape her, we just had non-consensual sex."
I rest my case.
lol
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: doctor doolittle
on Friday, January 22, 2021 – 07:11 am
You guys give being a GD fan
You guys give being a GD fan a bad reputation!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: doctor doolittle
on Friday, January 22, 2021 – 10:55 am
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Friday, January 22, 2021 – 05:19 pm
I had like 3 pulls of nitrous
I had like 3 pulls of nitrous 46 years ago
was it pcp I had one of 48 years ago
not my thing AT ALL
i did 2-3 hits of freebase with an old friend and my wife 30 years ago at their urging
....Shortly after that they took off to Oregon on the first day of kindergarten for my son
And I became a single dad of a three and five year old
I think it worked out for the best Overall with her having zero involvement in raising the kids
i made a vision of the future
and went there
raising five children and way,way more than just surviving
my 35 year old son seems to have been pretty damaged
life is blessed
In an odd way a little bit maybe it was like having cancer 11 years ago
Crisis makes you stronger
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Friday, January 22, 2021 – 05:43 pm
Back in the '90s, when
Back in the '90s, when nitrous was taking off big-time in the GD lots, venue security would work with GD security and roll through the lots confiscating the tanks. At Shoreline that would end up being quite a few tanks taken over three days, which were then turned over to the police. It's funny, but somehow one or two tanks would always get misplaced in the turnover and would end up in a storage shed at the venue.
Since the Grateful Dead would always play three shows very early in the Shoreline season, often the opening shows for the season (the new hires were always told, "If you can survive this, you can survive anything) there was always some fun around the place for a month or so after the GD shows. In those days, the staff fun would begin as soon as the gates were locked. It was a good, safe & damn fun way to de-stress and tell war stories from that night's show. I very often drove home from a show in the morning sun.
Those were fun & different times, and I had some fun with the nitrous on those summer nights, but I gave it up pretty quick because at least for me it negated the effects of pot, and that was a deal-breaker. I had the same problem with blow.
Priorities.