Talk:Crack epidemic in the United States

"End" of Epidemic Unclear

It would help to have some verbiage addressing when the epidemic slowed down.

Pre/post images

Can some one help find and place pre/post crack neighborhood decay images from east and west coast? I'd like to see Oakland, Chicago, and Brooklyn pre/post. I think it would nice to show the effect that the crack bomb had at destroying these communities, pictures speak volumes.

Implied causality incorrect?

The first paragraph in Effect on African American communities implies it was more or less a coincidence that crack cocaine especially hit African Americans, because these were constrained in inner-city neighbourhoods, and it was these inner-city neighbourhoods were crack cocaine was most popular. Now I would say this is nonsense, because first, inner city is just a euphemism for neighbourhoods with low socio-economic status. In the US these neighbourhoods are in the city centers, but e.g. in France it is just the other way round. It is just basic economy: the drugs are delivered to where their potential consumers are. And it is definitely not settled that the, on average, low socio-economic status of African Americans is just due to their geographical concentrations. It is definitely not argued like that in the reference that is given in this paragraph, rather that the geographic concentration of low-income families, also because "Successful African Americans moved their families to newly-integrated communities" leaving the lower-income ones behind, lead to the geographic concentration of crack cocaine use.

So I would like to turn this paragraph into one that just makes the connection of crack use among African Americans with inner-city neighbourhoods without any causality, because that is what the reference says. Seattle Jörg (talk) 11:28, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

I have done it, condensing the material to the information verified in sociological studies and toned down the geographical aspects. Seattle Jörg (talk) 10:19, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Killer Mike - Reagan

Add the CIA connection?

The song "Reagan" explains how US President Ronald Regan lied to the American public. It also mentions how the Central Intelligence Agency and Oliver North looked the other way when terrorists shipped in narcotics to inner city American cities, causing the Crack epidemic in the United States, as revealed by journalist Gary Webb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:1370:810C:7751:2D5E:5DAB:1ACE:9199 (talk) 10:28, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, we work with RS....not songs promoting urban legends.Rja13ww33 (talk) 14:50, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Chemical differences between cocaine powder and crack

Why doesn't this article address the chemical differences between cocaine powder (hydrochloride salt) and crack (free base)? -- Frotz(talk) 02:10, 4 January 2023 (UTC)