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Crack vaporizes near temperature 90 °C (194 °F), [1] much lower than the cocaine hydrochloride melting point of 190 °C (374 °F). [1] Whereas cocaine hydrochloride cannot be smoked (burns with no effect), [1] crack cocaine when smoked allows for quick absorption into the blood stream, and reaches the brain in eight seconds. [1]
In the early 1980s, the majority of cocaine being shipped to the United States was landing in Miami, and originated in Colombia, trafficked through The Bahamas. [1] Soon there was a huge glut of cocaine powder in these islands, which caused the price to drop by as much as 80 percent. [1]
Selling crack cocaine, they took in approximately $32,000 per month over a six-year period. This was spent as follows: $5,000 to the board of twenty directors of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation , who oversaw 100 such gangs for approximately $500,000 in monthly income.
Flavor Flav shares what it cost — in dollars — to keep himself in cocaine and crack during the six heaviest years of his 18 years of drug abuse. 15 years clean, Flavor Flav talks about the ...
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Panelists at the Drug Abuse Foundation of Palm Beach County discussed how race altered the nation's responses to the crack cocaine and opioid epidemics.
Lifetime use of crack cocaine, according to MTF, also increased among eighth-, tenth-, and twelfth-graders, from an average of 2% in 1991 to 3.9% in 1999. Perceived risk and disapproval of cocaine and crack use both decreased during the 1990s at all three grade levels. The 1999 NHSDA found the highest rate of monthly cocaine use was for those ...
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