• @x00z
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    76 months ago

    Crack comes from the crackle sound you get when smoking if you use baking soda to make the freebase. I use ammonia. Nowadays they just use the name crack for freebase cocaine, which isn’t really accurate. Where I live we just call it smoking coke because almost everybody uses ammonia, and most people don’t buy freebase directly.

    So to be accurate we should call it “freebase cocaine” and not “crack”.

    • @Dasus
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      46 months ago

      So to be accurate we should call it “freebase cocaine” and not “crack”.

      I agree with you. Unfortunately most drug users I know (both recreational and problem users) aren’t too strongly into prescriptive language use.