I never really did a lot of drugs besides smoking pot a few times but I tried crack once at a party in college and I felt pretty ashamed of myself immediately after despite high. I didn’t try it again and am actually a sober adult now, not because I had a drug problem but I just grew out of wanting to try them and never liked to drink alcohol.
I never met anyone else who would ever admit to trying it though or even cocaine despite statistically knowing many people have haha. Any crack smokers on lemmy?
Yeah. I’ve smoked tons of crack. I was on heroin for years before I tried it the first time. Within a month of smoking crack regularly my life was down the fucking tubes. It’s bad shit. Like really really bad shit. I would strongly recommend anyone reading this NEVER EVER try it.
Only thing I’ve done that fucked my life worse than crack was meth, and only by margins that could easily be a rounding error…
Oh yeah. I could imagine. AFAIK, I only did meth once and it went poorly. Myself and a friend did a ton of MDMA the night before, the next day my buddy’s dealer texts him about having blue molly (there’s no such thing as blue molly). So we’re like
, and we laid the whole gram out and started sniffing it up. We thought because we did so much the night before we would have huge tolerances. We did not, because it wasn’t MDMA. So we each did like half a gram of really shitty meth and blue food coloring. I was absolutely sure I was going to die for like an entire 24 hours.Yeah, it’s a motherfucker like that. Least it didn’t turn into a habit. That’s basically what happened to me, but then I wasn’t able to kick it for 2 years. Went From 280lbs to 160 in like 7 months. The thing that pulled me out was getting busted for committing a crime. And by that point I wanted out, but had no idea how to.
So glad to hear your off it and hopefully doing better!
Clean for basically spitting distance of 20 years. Happily living my best life.
Thanks comrade, hope you’re doing as well as you can.
I don’t know why people get into meth and crack in the first place. They’ve heard all the stories and likely know people messed up badly from it already. “Hmmm, this is the drug for me!”
People hunting extreme pain relief or getting “just a little higher” once you’ve out toleranced the easy stuff
I wonder if they somehow think they will be able to manage it.
I smoked crack in my teens. I think it’s an unfair stigma to judge crack worse than cocaine - even though I know you’re not proclaiming that or anything.
I think it’s an unfair stigma to judge crack worse than cocaine
Like so many stupid things that don’t make sense, it originated in racism.
Basically, the Reagan administration realized that more black people used crack than powder cocaine and it was the other way around for white people, so they made the sentencing for crack harsher by a margin of 100:1 to make sure there were more black victims of the War On Drugs than white ones.
This, combined with the Reagan, Bush, and afair also Clinton administrations demonizing crack users as the ultimate example of “it’s their own fault for the moral failing of doing street drugs” bullshit, and the for profit yellow media happily following their lead, is why even people without a bigoted bone in their bodies still think that crack is a hundred times worse than the pharmacologically identical powder cocaine.
Let’s be real though, crack is significantly more addictive than regular cocaine. The high is higher, it lights up all the dopamine receptors in your brain. The high is much shorter, and the crash is much harder, which pushes users to use more to avoid intolerable withdrawal symptoms. Cocaine is “mellower” in pretty much every way. All the bad parts of cocaine use are only magnified in crack use. All this is completely independent of fucked up drug policy
Why? It’s the same compound in the blood stream. Gonna need a source
Faster it hits you the more addictive it is. IV heroin is more addictive than smoking heroin too.
What’s the difference between pot and crack
One is one thing and the other is another thing.
If you want to read more about experiences, Erowid had a great library of information, including write ups of people who have used different drugs before.
This is the link for crack/cocaine.
Omg, I used to read the shit out of the experiences vault. Glad to see the site is still up.
I know, back in the day when you had to find websites and the web felt vast and hidden and mysterious. Search engines sucked and a lot of word of mouth. Loved that shit, before the money and the idiots arrived.
