Crack is not more adictive than cocaine

[GOD]

The american government has anounced that because there is no diference in the adictive qualitys of cocaine and crack that the sentances for possesion of both should be equal . At the moment the sentances for crack possesion are higher than for posesion of cocaine . That means that 20,000 people could have their prison sentances reduced . There seems to also be a conection to sentance and colour , 81% of people in prison for crack are black .

This was just reported on CNN news .

 

[Entheonaut]

81% is black u say, but what is the percentage black people that are locked up for cocaine? You need something to compare it to don't you think?

 

[GOD]

Yup i agree , i just heard it on CNN maybe they say what you ask on their web site ???

 

[Entheonaut]

hmm yeah I looked around but I don't think they mention it anywhere... aw well, who cares 8)

 

[GOD]

The story is here:- http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/11/14/cr ... index.html

 

[Entheonaut]

Before the changes, a criminal found guilty of having one gram of crack cocaine would receive the same penalty as someone with 100 grams of the powder version.

Isn't that ridiculous?? Why would somone in the posession of crack be punished a 100 times more severe than someone in posession of cocaine?

 

[Guest]

The american government has anounced that because there is no diference in the adictive qualitys of cocaine and crack

Phew, what a relief!!
Better call that dealer and hit up some pipe's tonight baby!! :smoke:

 

[GOD]

No , fuck that i was never interested in fucking my lungs , if its good coke you dont need to . Instead i fucked my nose untill i started puting a few grams in a small bottle of vodka and then taking secret sips when no one was looking .

 

[kcar181]

How does drinking it feel? Sounds like it'd last longer and be more mellow.

 

[tryptonaut]

I haven't done coke for a while and I have only done it a handful of times. The last time we only had very little and ate it - in my opinion it is the nicest way of taking it. Doesn't shoot you up, feels nice and you don't come down from it like a rocket falling off the sky.
Look for "vin mariani" on google, it was a cocaine-wine in the early 20th century, and people were very much enjoying it. Pope Leo was on their advertisments and they say he never went anywhere without a bottle of vin mariani

 

[skrudge]

I've never put anything up my nose my whole life, and I'm proud of that

 

[tryptonaut]

I even snorted pills when I was younger... comes faster and comedown is faster, so I could take x during the week in the evenings. Bad idea, especially with some pills (once thought my head was going to explode). Stupid teenagers!

 

[kcar181]

I've never put anything up my nose my whole life, and I'm proud of that

Not even a finger?! But yea it's rare that I do considering people i know have had whole pieces of "nose" fall out of them.

 

[spice]

I live in what is the crack capital of the universe.

I can tell you all for sure that the discrepancy in sentencing and incarceration amounts to nothing more than class warfare, pure and simple. I've BEEN to prison here, and a lot of times I was the ONLY white in a dorm of 70 blacks.

For 4 years, in the deep south.

They will put that white ass in jail, but you have to really kick them in the balls....while I was in there, many,MANY blacks told me that their entire neighborhoods made pacts to sell as little crack to their own kind, and as much to 'the white devils' as possible. I believe them, too.

You can't imagine how many white people are on that shit around here, riding around in Ford pickups with Bush stickers on it.
I am not even angry that the blacks are 'conspiring' to do that either.

What goes around...fucking comes around.

Everyone that has even halfway followed my regular rants about Bush, et al, knows who I personally hold responsible for INVENTING the enture crack epidemic;

Ronald Reagan, and George HW Bush.

Iran/Contra.

It;s all been exposed too, and everyone over here yawned, and changed the channel.

What goes around fucking comes around. Hopefully I'll be able to watch the crumbling of Neo-Rome from a distance.

 

[Brugmansia]

Base is just over the top. It is in no way comparable with snorting with is just a weak effect compared to what well prepared purfied basecoke produces.

Although the descision seems logical since crack can be made out of cocaine easily if knowing the best cooking-method.

 

[spice]

I find cocaine hideously boring, like meth. Plus, it's super addictive, at least among what I see...it doesn't really give a return for me, just a physcal sensation.
Also, chronic cocaine use leads to serious cardiovascular problems.

Addicted, with a bad heart, doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me.

 

[GOD]

Actor Lindsey Lohan spent 84 minutes in a Los Angeles jail on thursday after pleading guilty to drunk driving and cocaine possesion . Lohan faced charges of reckless driving , driving under the influence and driving under the influence of cocaine . The sentance that she got was 1 day in jail . She entered the prison at 10.30 and left at 11.54 . Lohan was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving two times in the last year . In july following a car chase where she crashed her car in Beverly Hills .

In august Nicole Richie spent 80 minutes in jail for driving under the influence of drugs .

I dont think that they are black though ?????

I agree that the hit of smoking base is very strong , maybe comparable to fixing it ...... but once you are absolutely full the effects are the same . I used to snort so much so fast that i was shaking like a naked person at the north pole , with swet dripping of my nose and forhead in 1 second takt , with my heart pounding in my throat , not being able to stand up and having to move around very slowly on all fours . I used to do 5 gramms of peruvian coke in about 4 or 5 hours...... after making a will and testament before starting each time .

 

[buffachino]

You feind,

 

[spice]

Yeah, they aren't black, and I hear what you are saying.

But, hell, California is mega-permissive and has an extremely liberal drug policy anyway....

I used to do it gonzo-style, as you describe, too....we were getting it from a Venezuelan used-car dealer in Corpus Christi Texas, USA in the mid-80's, and it killed a few of my friends....we would shoot so much of that shit that there was nothing left to hit...

I had to get away from it, it was too destructive, and I generally saw too many negative things happen. All the negativity was in the area of person to person interaction, too...I never saw one single legal consequence among all the people involved. Everyone turned a blind eye to it...

Los Angeles is Cocaine central...one of the largest ghettos existant is located there, and I promise you that those people target whites, primarily...

But I agree with your basic premise;

No, it isn't more addictive in crack form...but consider our psyche here in America, we are PROGRAMMED from birth to get the 'instant fix' in this culture, whether your ass is fat, or you have halitosis, or your personal communication skills aren't up to par....

the great, mighty, capitalist system can fix it FOR $ 19.99

CALL NOW !

So what I am saying is that it is packaged in a way which is attractive to our subliminally programmed mindset of 'get it now' 'cheap'

Instantly !

This, I believe, is the secret as to why the crack 'epidemic' seems to plague this country so bad....

Also, economically, not everyone has the money laying around for an 8-ball, or a gram, but everyone has enough for a crack rock...


Crack was custom-tailored to the economic realities of Western culture.