What You Need to Know About Drugs: Cocaine and Crack
But in the last six months crack dealers have found that benzocaine can be 'cooked up' and 'washed up' to form crack cocaine-style rocks. The 50-year old dealer from Walton, Liverpool, added: 'The washing-up and cooking-up simply purify the benzocaine. 'Then you cook it up in a microwave with baking soda to make the rocks. Crack cocaine is frequently purchased already in rock form, although it is not uncommon for some users to 'wash up' or 'cook' powder cocaine into crack themselves. This process is frequently done with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), water, and a spoon.
- Mix cocaine and baking soda at a 4:1 ratio (4 parts cocaine to one part baking soda). Make sure they are chopped into fine powder and mixed well, then combine them into the glass container. Add a few drops of water until the mixed powder becomes like thin mud Heat the bottom of the container, evenly, until the entire mixture begins to boil.
- Here's one recipe,you use mannitol a small amount of bicarbonate of soda then add lidocaine or benzocaine.You then need something else thats white powdery slightly crystalline but also gives you a buzz,there are many different things you can use depending on what you can get you hands on or what to spend.Caffeine is quite good but don't use too.
- Crack Cocaine – Crack cocaine Benzocaine ‘crack’ scam nets drug dealers massive profits. DRUG gangs are passing off a dental anaesthetic as crack cocaine, a Daily Star Sunday Video 2 DVD We buy tapes. Looking Crack Cocaine. Although it is not uncommon for some users to 'wash up' or 'cook' the cocaine into crack themselves.
| What It Is: | Cocaine is a white powder that comes from the dried leaves of the coca plant that is found in South America. Crack cocaine is a form of the drug that gives a very quick, intense high. Crack is made by cooking cocaine powder with baking soda, then breaking it into small pieces called rocks. It got its name because it crackles when it is heated and smoked. Crack cocaine looks like white or tan pellets (sort of like gerbil or dry cat food). Both cocaine and crack are very addictive — and very, very dangerous. |
| Sometimes Called: | coke, rock, snow, blow, white, toot, nose candy, base, flake, powder, basa, smack |
| How It’s Used: | Cocaine is inhaled or snorted through the nose or injected into a vein. Crack is smoked in a pipe. |
| What It Does to You: | Cocaine is a stimulant, which means that it produces a fast, intense feeling of power and energy. Then it wears off (crack wears off very quickly) and the user feels depressed and nervous and craves more of the drug to feel good again. Cocaine is so addictive that someone can get hooked after trying it just once. Snorting cocaine can damage the septum between the nostrils, causing a hole in the middle of the nose. Cocaine makes your heart beat faster and your blood pressure and body temperature go up. It can make a person’s heart beat abnormally. Cocaine is so dangerous that using it just once can make you have a heart attack or stroke and can kill you. |
Benzocaine Crack Rock
Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD
Date reviewed: January 2014