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Have you ever smoked crack? What was it like? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by IceHouse@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I never really did a lot of drugs besides smoking pot a few times but I tried crack once at a party in college and I felt pretty ashamed of myself immediately after despite high. I didn't try it again and am actually a sober adult now, not because I had a drug problem but I just grew out of wanting to try them and never liked to drink alcohol.

I never met anyone else who would ever admit to trying it though or even cocaine despite statistically knowing many people have haha. Any crack smokers on lemmy?

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s an unfair stigma to judge crack worse than cocaine

Like so many stupid things that don't make sense, it originated in racism.

Basically, the Reagan administration realized that more black people used crack than powder cocaine and it was the other way around for white people, so they made the sentencing for crack harsher by a margin of 100:1 to make sure there were more black victims of the War On Drugs than white ones.

This, combined with the Reagan, Bush, and afair also Clinton administrations demonizing crack users as the ultimate example of "it's their own fault for the moral failing of doing street drugs" bullshit, and the for profit yellow media happily following their lead, is why even people without a bigoted bone in their bodies still think that crack is a hundred times worse than the pharmacologically identical powder cocaine.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Let's be real though, crack is significantly more addictive than regular cocaine. The high is higher, it lights up all the dopamine receptors in your brain. The high is much shorter, and the crash is much harder, which pushes users to use more to avoid intolerable withdrawal symptoms. Cocaine is "mellower" in pretty much every way. All the bad parts of cocaine use are only magnified in crack use. All this is completely independent of fucked up drug policy

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why? It's the same compound in the blood stream. Gonna need a source

[–] Glasgow@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Faster it hits you the more addictive it is. IV heroin is more addictive than smoking heroin too.