CDR: Re: Whipped Europeans

[Sampo A Syreeni]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote:

>Crack cocaine is made using a relatively simple procedure which changes
>that equilibrium to where almost all of it blows into the brain at
>once. This is why crack cocaine is considered worse than the "regular"
>powder.

'Freebasing' wasn't it? Cook in high pH to release the free alcaloid form
from the salt. What I do not remember is the precise reason for the high
permeability - water solubility?

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university