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Freebase and crack are not the same thing

Freebase is made with ether. Crack is made with baking soda. Freebase can also be used as verb so you can say you are "freebasing crack". But you would never refer to actual freebase as crack

Inaccurate "effective" descriptor

Please remove the word "effective" in the following sentence - "The Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment calls it the most "addictive" (effective) form of cocaine."

"Effective" is not synonymous or analogous to "addictive" in this context and the source does not use the word "effective". There is no legitimate purpose to including that word parenthetically.

Bdubble (talk) 23:53, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please remove the photo of the spoon and other things you need to create crack. I don't know who thought that was a good idea but you're going to have someone who's going to try to create crack and it's going to be because of that lame-ass picture. Irresponsible! MrSuperEditor123 (talk) 20:48, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Wikipedia is not censored. AdA&D 23:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC) AdA&D 23:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A few more recent synonym's to possibly be added.

Whiskey, Whitney, Posh, Concubine, Cubba, Cherry Pie and Peng-a-Leng Shugshugz (talk) 05:27, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bones pebbles Kitty litter Shugshugz (talk) 05:30, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should this article be folded into Cocaine?

A large portion of the article is essentially rewriting much more fleshed-out sections from cocaine, since they are effectively the same drug taken in different ways. The rest could largely be subsumed into a subsection of Cocaine. Meanwhile, a whole article could be written on the history and social effects of the inner-city crack epidemic (real and imagined) of the 80's, sentencing disparities, and media portrayal. All of that barely gets a line or two in this article. SilverbackNet ^talk 02:13, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It really seems strange that there isn't a history section to this article.--Senor Freebie (talk) 16:34, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you write one? I'm sure it would be a welcomed addition! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 20:24, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted reference to "inner city"

Intro paragraph had referred to "impoverished inner city neighborhoods." The inclusion of the phrase "inner city" made the statement inaccurate (some East Coast areas afflicted by the crack epidemic were outlying neighborhoods) with little redeeming value. As the article linked to (see inner city mentions, the term was used at the time as a "euphemism for low-income residential districts." It had no place in a neutral forum in 2019. Treeemont (talk) 21:10, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]