Crack cocaine

Skateboarding Rolling down a hill, vision blurred so that I saw only streaks of blue sky before I saw the brown leaves on the ground. Pain shoots through every part of me that hit the hillside covered in sharp, pointed sticks, and large, uneven rocks. Finally, the rolling stops my face planted in the dirt, as I pushed myself upward, my family was already at the top of the hill screaming at me “ARE YOU ALRIGHT, HE DEFINITELY BROKE SOMETHING.” There voices sounded like I was underwater. Only one…

drugs, cocaine being the most popular one that the public knows of. Ms. Houston and her husband Bobby Brown are known for their crazy love of each other and of cocaine. Whitney’s addictions succeeded over her families failed attempts to keep her sober. Whitney Houston reached the prime of her career in 1992, which is also the year she met Bobby Brown who would go on to become her husband and father of her child Bobbi Kristina. Many people assume that Bobbi Brown introduced Houston to cocaine,…

she thought and thought until she thought that they might have been thefts. So then when they were not looking nancy ran into the house and looked around. then through the crack of the door she saw what the thief look liked and it fitted the description by Judy’s aunt's . Then nancy quickly hid behind a dresser and look from a crack. Then, one of the thieves, saw Nancy hiding. He shoved her into the closet and locked it behind…

article is written by Cyndy Caravelis, Ted Chiricos, and William Bales (2011) called “Static and Dynamic Indicators of Minority Treat in Sentencing Outcomes: A Multi-Level Analysis” and the second article is called “Sentencing with Discretion:Crack Cocaine Sentencing after Booker” by Ryan S. King and Marc Mauer in 2006. In addition, the last article is by Mona Lynch and Marisa Omori (2014) called “Legal Change and Sentencing Norms in the Wake of Booker: The Impact of Time and Place on Drug…

Cocaine is often sold as a white powder, this can be injected, because the drug is soluble in water it can be injected directly into the bloodstream. It can be sniffed through the nostrils. Cocaine is highly addictive and is made from the coco bush plant which is grown in South America. Through chemical processing it can be made into a freebase and crack forms, which looks like crystals, and is smoked. Crack is made of cocaine hydrochloride that is chemically processed with water and ammonia or…

COCAINE THE BIG PROBLEM This story has been told to me many times by an acquaintance. The person ive known had grown up in Alabama in the projects, it 's a really rough place you wouldn 't want to grow up in. They didn 't have nice things, and the lived in a house filled with bugs so it wasn 't very clean. He had a brother although it was very hard to keep occupied, after high school he had gotten into the wrong group of people and then first tried his first hit of Cocaine. Then later became…

What is Crack? Crack is highly addictive freebase form of cocaine that can be smoked. It became very popular in impoverished inner city neighborhoods in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985. The rapid increase in use and availability during this time period is referred to as the crack epidemic. This drug offers a short but intense high to its users. How is Crack Ingested? Crack is heated and then smoked. It got its main name because of the crackling sound it makes when…

Have you ever wondered about the rich history of cocaine, the use of cocaine hasn’t always been used to get “feeling right”. Cocaine comes from a plant native to the high mountain ranges in South America, where it was first introduced. The first use of cocaine was introduced around 1853 in South America. The coca leaves were used by the natives of South America to help with farming in thin air at high altitudes. The coca plant acted upon the user as a stimulant, that increased breathing, which…

Cocaine is a substance that has been around for many years and still remains highly abused today. Cocaine is the psychoactive agent found in coca plants. Coca is one of the first, most compelling and most dangerous drugs of natural origin. It is used medically as an anesthetic and as an illegal drug. During the 1980’s cocaine use was at its finest. It was the preferred drug of use for the wealthy and acclaimed and was part of what some called a captivating life the “Champagne of Drugs”.…

Niemann isolated the active ingredient (an alkaloid) from the coca plant and created the drug known as cocaine. It wasn’t until the 1880s that cocaine began to be used in the medical community. Famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud was the first to promote cocaine as a cure to depression and sexual impotence. Freud regularly used the drug and even published an article titled “Über Coca” which promoted cocaine as the “magical…