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300 euro's worth of cocaine that I smoked in a day.
I'm not proud of it, and I don't often smoke it, but it was a fun day.
Not to judge you or anything, as I really don't, but I think it'd be more accurate to say "crack", as in order to smoke cocaine, you'd have to freebase it. And freebase cocaine is crack.
When consumed, cocaine can be found in two primary forms:
A water-soluble hydrochloride salt, which is typically snorted
“Crack” cocaine, a water-insoluble base form that is smoked
That being said I've inhaled a few hundred euros a night at times as well so again, no judgment. I'm just pedantic.
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".
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.