when and why did the crack epidemic end?

[Ol’Otis]

i wanna say '92.

 

[filial_piety]

I'd say about 91 or 92...by then the message was out...the few relatives I knew fukin with it, either dealin or using were either dead, in jail or recovering

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

1994, when the Crime Bill became Law.

NOBODY was tryin' for Three Strikes.​

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

most people i know who had folks on crack in the family, they didn't want to be like them

seeing a live crackhead is quite a deterrent for most lol

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

but then a new intriguing drug comes along for a new epidemic

crack to meth, meth to pills, life goes on.

 

[Ol’Otis]

but then a new intriguing drug comes along for a new epidemic

crack to meth, meth to pills, life goes on.

true

 

[zayk35]

Never ended for my father who sold rocks til the day he died and still going for my mother who's been smoking rocks since 84-85.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Never ended and still going for my mother.

sorry to hear that bro

 

[zayk35]

sorry to hear that bro

Ain't no thang I moved away and turned out great

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

most people i know who had folks on crack in the family, they didn't want to be like them

seeing a live crackhead is quite a deterrent for most lol

This, most people had enough by that point. Everybody either knew someone strung out or had dealt with them personally.

 

[Supreme365]

Ended?

 

[Ol’Otis]

Ended?

it aint nowhere as bad as it was

 

[Supreme365]

it aint nowhere as bad as it was

True but there’s still a lot of people going through it
I was born in 93 so I saw the aftermath of it and the destruction is still real to this day.
A lot of dudes pops we’re either imprisoned or killed mines included.
Some people were never able to kick the addiction
Some still sell it as a way to make a living
And it destroyed our neighborhoods setting us back financially as a whole
Not to mention all of the hood beefs that started over the trade that are still going on to this day. Lives are still being loss as a result.

 

[MoveForward]

The crack era didn't end until about 01. It ended because the fiends died off or got clean. The stigma of being a crack head made people decide not to try that sh1t. As a child, my people used to tell me that you get hooked off of one hit.

 

[Leatherface]

*side note*
I love how they don’t really report on the Meth epidemic because it’s their relatives out there bad now.....I truly believe they made meth sentences worse than crack offenses, out of shame.