when and why did the crack epidemic end?

[Rollo Goodlove]

2000s..

How?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Yeah, my point still remains. Gangs were killing each other in droves before crack. Addicts were having their lives ruined and dying with other drugs before crack. The ghetto, broken homes, neglected children, etc. existed before crack. Before hard drugs, it was alcohol. The worst gang era in America was probably the 1920s when alcohol was illegal.

As someone who hasn’t even smoked weed, I don’t understand why crack is made into such a bigger thing than powder cocaine, heroin, meth, or any other hard drug. If anything, meth seems like the worst drug on your psyche and physical appearance while heroin and other opioids are the harshest killers.

I’ve never seen a crackhead that looked like this.

Heroin is almost glamorized but it probably destroyed far more people in the 70s than crack did in the 80s/90s.

Crack isn’t a quite as bad a drug for you physiologically as heroin is.

However, there was way money to be made on a street level in crack when it hit in 80’s.

There was way more crackheads in America in dopefiends. Heroin was mostly just in a handful of cities prior to the crack epidemic whereas crack was a pandemic that spread all over the country, urban and rural.

Also, the comeback on crack is faster than heroin. Although heroin is a worse addiction, crackheads come back quicker. Dopefiends get their work and nod for a while then cop again so they don’t get sick. Crack chemically makes you crave more and more and the high is only about ten minutes.

That’s why you had so many young crack dealers on the block with more money than they could spend in the 80’s and early 90’s across America...youngsters had never seen that much money selling drugs. And when you have that much street money turning over at that high a rate, the violence over territory, money and product was inevitable.

 

[Champ_KW]

Because black people are resilient. It knocked us on our ass for a lil bit, but we bounced back. Meth has been murking the society with recessive genes for damn near 30 years and there's no end in sight for the opioid heads either.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Got this off another board

Sad subject, but this response is just

"I taste it and don't get numb and barely taste the cocaine."
and at the same time.

 

[Freedman]

Probably was a media sensation element to it like "Chiraq" in current times and the Media just stopped reporting the stories as often but like its been said in this thread MFs still selling and smoking Rock till this day

 

[AFRAM GLORY]

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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I don’t understand why crack has a worse stigma than any other hard drug. An addict is an addict. The dudes strung out on lean, benzos, zannys, or whatever aren’t any better than a crackhead. Mac Miller and Juice WRLD are dead just the same.

Hip-hop + MSM is the cause of the stigma. The combination of the street-level working with the National level decimated the crack industry. It was a relentless assault from the street corner to Hollywood.......​

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Nothing like this existed/exists for any other drug in the history of the United States.​

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

I'd say about 91 or 92

 

[DoomzdayzV]

It never actually ended.......Heron is the big thing right now, and ALL of these dope fiends are smoking crack too. It aint no such thing as a dopefiend that doesnt smoke that pipe too

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

I don’t understand why crack has a worse stigma than any other hard drug. An addict is an addict. The dudes strung out on lean, benzos, zannys, or whatever aren’t any better than a crackhead. Mac Miller and Juice WRLD are dead just the same.

Crack effected poorer people and had more gang violence associated with it.


And America is

Probably was a media sensation element to it like "Chiraq" in current times and the Media just stopped reporting the stories as often but like its been said in this thread MFs still selling and smoking Rock till this day

This is also true.

The reality is, people still smoke crack.

It's just not as profitable for young men to waste their lives selling it.

Back in like '88, you had crack dealers in places like NY, LA, Chicago who were driving Benzes and Maseratis

You had crack dealers who were legit millionaires in the ghetto.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Nah Brehs. More like 99

I was fukcing a chick who sold a bunch of crack in 2001. Pumping out of a trap. Big ass stacks of money. In fact, that's what made me wanna be friends in the first place, I saw her holding this big ass knot

 

[King Poetic]

In terms of drug dealing where nikkas was kinda eating... I say up till 2005

now all the Nino Browns has become Pookies

 

[BeBorn]

As a 80s baby...theres several valid reasons..... Obviously it slowed down do to the harsh laws sh1t wasn't worth doing life...plus in chicago it was terrorism..the projects was hell on earth...people talking about 500 murders..in 92 there was 1200 murders...the money was obscene I was young but I remember family members and the old talk about blocks doing 30-40k a day on the westside...and as a crackbaby myself I saw first hand how it destroyed families communities all around...because my parents used drugs I never wanted nothing to do with hard drugs...coke is still prevalent and it weirds me out still I don't like to be around it... I can remember the smell vividly...addiction is addiction...hell some nikkas make weed look bad...getting high is getting high...its still crackheads but I don't know any block serving crack...it was just replaces with something else...but the amount of money i seen in 00-01 I see why hustlers was trapping...i had a 6-8 month run as a teenager that was outrageous....plus cameras went up and indictments and sweeps... I hardly hear of such now....

 

[Dad]

That whole “crack baby” thing was a lie

 

[Carlton Banks]