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What's the difference between crack cocaine and cocaine?
I know that crack is just baking soda and water added to cocaine. What I'm wondering is how the two affect your body differently and why is crack considered so much worse than cocaine? No, i have no intentions of using either. Just curious- Is it the actual smoking of the crack that makes it worse? In-depth answers will win the 10pts!
What I'm wondering is how each one feels, and the ACTUAL affects they have on the body. I know that one is considered for poor people and the other for rich.... but, if they're the same thing, why are they percieved so differently? Is the high shorter with crack?
Oh! one more question... why do coke heads move their lips around like they're chewing something. I've seen a couple people do this.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Freebase cocaine can't be smoked and is a power
Crack can be smoked and are hard crystals.
The are both cocaine and there's no difference once it's in your blood stream. Since people usually snort cocaine and smoke crack, they get more cocaine from crack so the high is stronger but shorter since smoking allows more of the drug to be absorbed quikly through the lungs than through the membranes of the nose, on the same note the high is also shorter.
Cocaine gives a feeling of euphoria, alertness, energy, and self-confidence. It works by blocking the uptake of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine, 3 major neurotransmitters in the brain that can make us feel happy (most anti-depressants work on one of more of these).
Source(s): my drugs and the brain textbook - 6 years ago
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What's the difference between crack cocaine and cocaine?
I know that crack is just baking soda and water added to cocaine. What I'm wondering is how the two affect your body differently and why is crack considered so much worse than cocaine? No, i have no intentions of using either. Just curious- Is it the actual smoking of the crack that makes it worse?...
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- 6 years ago
Powdered cocaine can me inhaled or injected. Crack is made by cooking powdered cocaine with backing soda to form a rock to smoke. Freebase cocaine is cooked with powdered cocaine and ammonia and smoked. You can't smoke powdered cocaine and freebase cocaine is part of crack. Crack is more pure and a shorter but larger high and cheaper to make
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Crack is a rock form of cocaine that is smoked and cheaper to produce. Meth is completely seperate from cocaine. They have the same energy rush, but meth tends to also casue halucinations and moderate paranoia, as well as tooth loss and long-term mental problems. Meth is quite cheap to produce (though dangerous to produce) and is one of the major drugs in the US midwest.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
They're the same thing, but cocaine is purer. Rich people use cocaine and poor people use crack. So for crack, the cocaine base is boiled and the "rock" is taken out, cut up and sold. Crack is worse because it is smoked so it hits the system in less than 10 seconds.
- 1 decade ago
Crack=Smokable
Coke=um...yea
never did crack, like my teeth too much..The high you get if you do coke, probably last maybe 3 hrs. I think crack kills your teeth, the high probably doesnt last that long as you would snort it. Ive never smoked any of it. Didnt really like coke all that much. they dont know they are moving thier lips that much, its just the part of being high of in upper really, just your body feels so hyped up and ur lips move...or you see people chewing gum, or on a straw. Just a habbit of the drug i guess. as the actually affects, it cant be good. it screws your body up, in the long run. Im sure if you google it you could find the exact things it does to ones body.
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