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Reasoning Behind Crack Cocaine Conversion, Sales, Use, etc.

Sin-thetic

Sin-thetic

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Hey BL, new here but not to the scene, usually a 2C-x / weed / amph-study-amines guy, not really a user of recreational stimulants since I find it's rarely worth the crash. However, since I'm also the friendly authority on drugs among my friends, one of them asked me the other day "What is crack, anyways?" so I gave the freebase cocaine shpeal, to which another promptly replied "but isn't coke expensive, and crack cheap?". This question has been bothering me quite deeply for about a week now. What self-respecting drug dealer that has cocaine, which is pretty valuable/expensive, would freebase it to a drug that's cheap? How on earth is this profitable? Conversely, would it not be possible to get the freebase cocaine and make it back into a salt? If it's the increased effect that the user looks for, would it not be more effective to simply IV cocaine? Can someone who's familiar with the compound shed some light as to why one is considered mighty and glamorous while the other is considered a poor addict's drug? The pharma/economics behind this just strike me as bizarre and convoluted.
 
Because their customer base is poor, plus crack provides an extremely short lived high. Because of that, even though buying crack seems cheap, eventually is becomes expensive because you keep chasing the original rush. It is not unheard of for people to purchase crack and then convert it back into cocaine HCL (the salt) and then snort and/or IV it.

I'm going to move this over to Drug Culture.

BDD-->DC
 
Mix up rock with white vinegar makes it a salt (acetic acid) or vitamine c powder mixed in water (cocaine citrate) like how heroin base users IV.
 
Because it is incredibly addicting, a lot more so than cocaine for a lot of people. It may be cheaper in a direct comparison, but because of the compulsion to reuse it being so strong, often the user comes back multiple times in a day, buying many little bits at a time that end up adding up to a lot.
 
What self-respecting drug dealer that has cocaine, which is pretty valuable/expensive, would freebase it to a drug that's cheap? How on earth is this profitable? Conversely, would it not be possible to get the freebase cocaine and make it back into a salt?
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If a gram of crack and a gram of coke are the same price, and the crack is made up of half baking soda, its more profitable. Turning powder into rock is profitable.
 
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