Crack

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The New Jim Crow (Alexander)

"Crack is wack."  - Whitney Houston.

Never once smoked "crack".

Smoked pounds of free-base though.

free-base IS crack

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.

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.

Turns out crack is the same as freebasing, just saved because there's no flammable liquids involved.

https://www.healthline.com/health/freebasing#experience

I think we just added baking soda. Loved it on joints. 

Over heard in th 80's:

"We don't do crack. We freebase, we're all white here"

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.

Heat until you see one bubble > swirl > heat until you see 3 bubbles

Bunch of goddam degenerates!

Hope Pillow Boy doesn't relapse after his business is gutted by the Dominion lawsuit. 

Never tasted the stuff, which is probably good.  Heard that it's habit-forming.

The Coolies  -  Crack Pipe (Burnin')

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8h9ja28J_DU

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......

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.

thought this was a bobby_t thread

I was a test tube and ammonia guy.

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 

^"I wish we had had dab rigs back then."- that may be why you're still alive, brother.

> 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.

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.

>>>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".

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."

>>>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!

>>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. 

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

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. 

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.  

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.

>>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

You guys give being a GD fan a bad reputation!

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 

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.