True. Some die first.
And some do it casually for 4 years while in college and come out the other side without any problems whatsoever.
Incidentally - I don’t have a problem with cocaine use in general. If people can afford it, know it’s bad for them, and want to use it anyway, that’s their business. But good lord, am I the only one who’s just squicked out by it? I mean, the stuff goes up your nose. shudders Forgive me, but that just sounds kind of gross.
Nor am I plugged in to the drug culture in any way. I just figured that people were committing crimes for cocaine - for one I thought that crack was the same as cocaine, and for another, I really can’t think of another drug (again, when in my mind crack and meth and a few others are the same as cocaine which is probably incorrect) that one would do anything for the money to get it, the only other drug that comes readily to mind is marijuana, and even I know that one doesn’t do B&Es and knock off a liquor store for weed money.
Crack cocaine is a solid crystalline form of cocaine – it looks like white or off white chunks and is typically smoked. Powdered cocaine, what people usually mean by “blow”, is cocaine hydrochloride salt and is typically insufflated as powder. The cost , culture and dosage are different enough to completely stratify users – powdered cocaine hydrochloride is mostly a middle-to-upper class social drug and crack cocaine is mostly a street drug.
Maybe this varies by area but I have never heard of anybody knocking over liquor stores to get blow money. Crack, meth, heroin and other opiates - yeah, I can imagine. My guess is that people sink to cheaper drugs before they completely run out of money. I would venture a guess that most people who actively consume cocaine hydrochloride currently have good day jobs or are in a university.
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Okay, so cocaine’s not dirty. Carry on.
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As for the phone dialer, perhaps it was mostly solid but with a tiny shaft in the very center, like an hourglass. The one in postcards’s second link seems to have a narrow strip in the center; perhaps it’s light showing through the hollow area.
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Yeah, cocaine has always been the high-roller drug. Crack is ghetto/trailer park.
Question: groman states that crack cocaine is a ‘solid crystalline form of cocaine’ and ‘blow’ is cocaine hydrochloride. Does this mean that crack is ‘pure’ cocaine and that ‘blow’ is a different chemical? Suppose a user were to grind crack into a powder and inhaled it nasally. Would the effect be the same as doing the same with powdered cocaine? If so, and assuming crack is less expensive than powdered cocaine, why would users of powdered cocaine (I almost said ‘powdered cocaine users’, which brings up a couple of different images) buy powder when it would be more economical to buy crack and turn it into a powder themselves?
It is sort of gross. But nothing compared to shooting up. I don’t mind having blood drawn when I need to, but having a metal thing deep inside your body when you don’t need to is just Squicky McSquickville.
Crack is the free base form, powdered cocaine is a salt.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone insufflate drugs with currency in real life. (Although only a small percentage of the drug-snorting I’ve observed has been cocaine.)
A drinking straw cut short, or clean paper. I suppose a bill would do in a pinch if there was absolutely nothing else around (as in a club) but most of the times when the powdered drugs came out it was in a home, and you could do better than that. Pizza flyers (or 20lbs bond) are more hygienic than photogenic.
Powdered cocaine is water soluble and dissolves once it has been snorted. It does not readily smoke when heat is applied to it.
Crack cocaine is not water soluble, so it cannot be snorted. But it gives off lots of smoke when gently heated.
Powdered cocaine is chemically converted into crack. Meth is a home made cheap substitute for crack.
Right.
The barrel of a ballpoint pen works very well. Or so I’ve heard.
Or the barrel of a ballpoint pen. If you have a straw (or ballpoint barrel) handy, sure those would be used. But if you don’t (or are unwilling to take apart your pen), the dollar bill works wonderfully. Or so I’ve heard.
Where to start…
For starters, a rolled up bill is probably the easiest to acquire (not everyone has plastic drinking straws, laying around) and the most commonly used, in lieu of the aforementioned. Although, I have known more than one user, that preferred “plastic, instead of paper”.
Among chronic/habitual users there can be a preference of one over the other. The reasons given, have ranged from: Don’t like bills, they can become moist and the powder will stick to it. Don’t like straws because, to get caught with a short piece of plastic straw, is indicative of drug use. Which can consequently lead to closer scrutiny,:eek: by law enforcement personnel. :dubious:
As for the different forms of cocaine… The types and methods of ingestion have a somewhat different “high”, for each. Inhaling (snorting) powdered coke is generally a gradual “high”, injection (shooting, banging) of powdered cocaine is an intense, almost instantaneous “high”.
The difference between the two methods and the high produced, being quite dramatic and pronounced.
Crack is made thru a process of mixing powdered cocaine, baking soda and water. The mixture is heated till they “mix”, then cooled. The procedure is somewhat difficult to accomplish with small amounts, with larger amounts being no less difficult, due to the fact that proper quantities of each are required, as well as the amount and duration, of heat applied.
Smoking crack produces a “high” similar to snorting, the main difference being in the rapidity or onset, and intensity of the “high”/sensation.
(Both of which, are not nearly as rapid and intense, as injection.)
The “edit” clock, cut me off!:smack: Just wanted to acknowledge that Yookeroo makes some excellent points, concerning the choice of “paper or plastic”.
Or so he has heard… LOL 
Given this, why do you think there is such social stratification in their respective use?
I believe crack is cheaper.
Also, I’ve never done crack, but cocaine gives a somewhat level easily controlled high. After a bit of experimenting it doesn’t take much work to figure out where you personally like to be and what it’ll take to keep you there for however long you want to be there for (does that make sense). It’s my understanding that you can’t really accomplish that with crack. It’s more of a straight up and then straight back down a few minutes later type thing.
Also, you can’t do crack in your office or the executive bathroom at work.
I’ve only seen people use rolled up money, never a ballpoint pen tube. But that would work I’m sure. I’ve seen straws used before also.
The thing about coke on bills, not only are you getting rid of whatever residual evidence may exist as soon as you spend it, as public currency who’s to say the coke wasn’t already on it before you got it in change.
Also, dollar bills aren’t used as often as say 20s or 100s because the larger denominations tend to be newer, thus less wrinkled or dirty. Coke would vacuum cleaner through a new, slick bill than an old, rough surfaced one. Plus, big bills kinda go with the culture, that of extravagant, conspicuous consumption.
Or, passing through the intestines of some mule.
Cheaper? Mmmmm… I’m not sure that’s entirely true. Granted, where you live can certainly have an effect on how much it costs. (The closer you are to the “border” or main distribution points, the cheaper it gets.)
Not quite… Although it is a fairly rapid “up”, the “down” is a lot more gradual/slower. Also, depending upon the “potency” and the amount smoked, the initial “high” can last upwards of 30-45 minutes.
I beg to differ, it is too easy, to do exactly that!:eek: The amount of smoke exhaled from one big hit, is no more than you would produce from one drag from a cigarette or cigar. Besides the fact, that there is no distinctly noticeable odor. (As compared to say, marijuana.)
Or, so I’ve been told… 
Wait…are we still talking about the stripper’s chest?