Ooh boy, you must not know what crack is like and how quickly you can become hopelessly addicted. To compare it to alcohol is nuts.
Well, I have an addict living in my house now. She’s been clean for over a year now but it’s been a difficult year for her... and us.
You do realize that ‘crack’ is a product of the War on Drugs, don’t you? As with all such things, when the penalties for possession of minor amounts of cocaine became so stringent, dealers decided to develop something that would give more “bang” for the volume. That way they could transport the equivalent of a kilo of coke in the form of a few grams of ‘crack’. Smaller volumes meant less risk of detection and more $$$ per trip.
Nearly the same thing happened during the prohibition years. Prior to Prohibition, most people drank wine or beer because both of them could be made in a cool basement. When the penalties for doing so became worse, it became more economical to distill whiskey, thus giving more kick for the volume and more profit for the risk. I may have been young then but I still remember my dad buying fruit jars of white lightning and burying them in the garden so they wouldn’t be found... except by us kids.
“To compare it to alcohol is nuts.”
How true. I’ve done both in my younger years, and there is no comparison. Two beers vs. two hits of acid? What a joke. Ask any loving parent if they would rather give their child (if they were forced to) two drinks or two hits of acid, coke, etc., and see what they say.
And the money angle has no merit. If someone’s using a drug, it’s for the “high” — who cares if the dealer made big or little profit? Just want to get stoned. Easy legal access to drugs—coke, meth, pot, acid—would be a total nightmare for this country.
Other countries are wiser and realize this. Their drug laws are much stricter.