Originally posted by: maxster
you'll become addicted and start wanting more?
I won't....
BUT
YOU might.
I "experimented" with free- base cocaine back in the '70s when you could buy , in a kit, all the chemical components needed to base with ether and sodium hydroxide.
It was sold as a "purity tester" which, if you knew your basic high school chemistry ( i did) would allow you to determine the relative purity of a white powder sample suspected of being cocaine hydrochloride.
"crack" is the endothermic version of the same reaction derived by using ether and SoHCL, only you use another form of So and ADD HEAT.
The name "crack" comes from the sound of the water still contained within the derivative being boiled off and contained within the crystalline structure.
Mostly because you can't wait for it to dry properly before smoking it...
because you're chasing that dragon and you don't even know it yet.
Yes, virginia, you're a crack addict... it doesn't take long.
BTW, unless YOU wash your blow with ether yourself, NOTHING you get nowadays is anything NEAR a real Cocaine Hydrochloride molecule.
Ever since the big Ether crackdown of th late 80's, the supplies for the jungle labs have dwindled and that stuff they produce today has been "cracked" with anothe, more rough petro solvent.
Don't do it. "Those guys" spend more of their energy making meth today anyway.
Just don't, and save the hurtin'.