Crack Cocaine

[um_dot_dot_dot_no]

Have you ever heard of a crack lab bust? Sure. Maybe one here and there now days, but not very many. All you ever really hear about is meth labs being busted, and people who are growing weed getting busted. How are these busts made? Well, one main way, is by tracking large ammounts of chemicals that are being purchased (for meth), or large amounts of fertelizer (for marijuana). Back in the late 70's, early 80's when crack cocaine first started showing up, it was distributed in tiny glass viles. I'm sure someone knows exactly what I'm talking about. Anyways, why wasn't there ever a huge crack bust back when it all began? It was almost ALL in these tiny viles..meaning someone was buying a hell of a lot of them from somewhere. Why didn't the government track who was buying all these little viles and bust them? I know why. Because it was the government who was distrubuting the crack. Sure, now days people can make crack in their own kitchens. But back when it all started, I think it was the government. They did it to help pay off the Vietnam "War" (which by the way, is a whole different crock of sh** in itself). So...maybe this is far out there. Maybe not. Post your thoughts.

Edited May 14, 2004 by um_dot_dot_dot_no

[gollum]

It's a pretty old story, to be honest. But I will add my 2 cents worth.

The whole purpose of ignoring the crack cocain industry was to keep the masses in a state of aneabriation(sp).

The afro-american is the most influentual candidate for drug influence.

America have always been guilty of funding back-yard politics to achieve their aims.

[4dplane]

America have always been guilty of funding back-yard politics to achieve their aims

Hell yes they do! We see it in the form of free labor. Crack cocain is the only drug for which the first possesion offense of 5g or more triggers a 5 year mandatory prison sentance. This is 59% longer than the average prison sentance received by rapists. Don't qoute me on this one but in the 80's America had a Million people in jail, 10 years latter they had 2 million in jail. The majority of these new prison terms where drug related. I wounder how many where crack related.

excerpts from the book

Downsize This!

by Michael Moore

According to recent articles in Business Week and The Nation, the possibilities are endless when you consider the companies already using contracted prison labor to offset their costs:

TWA: Prisoners in Ventura, California, are now working as flight reservation specialists. When a customer calls the 800 number to book a flight on TWA, he or she could be talking to a convicted felon!

IBM, Texas Instruments, and Dell Computers: In Lockhart, Texas, a subcontractor, LTI, has a private prison build and fix circuit boards for these three computer giants. In Colorado, prisoners have worked as telemarketers for AT&T.

Microsoft: In Washington State, inmates package software and other products for Exmark, which supplies Microsoft and thirty to forty other companies.

Eddie Bauer: Also in Washington State, inmates sew fleece and Gor-Tex outdoor wear for Redwood Outdoors, which supplies companies like Eddie Bauer and Union Bay.

Spalding: Prisoners in Hawaii have worked packing and shipping Spalding golf balls.

The list goes on and on. Starbucks, Bank of America, Chevron-businesses can't move fast enough to sign up. And why not? Would you rather pay unionized employees twenty dollars an hour plus benefits plus taxes, and be forced to adhere to all of the other government regulations that go with having a non-inmate workforce-just to package golf balls? Of course not!

crack stats

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/crack.pdf

Michael_Moore

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Michael_...nsize_This.html

Edited May 15, 2004 by 4dplane

[xanubia]

If the government wanted to make money by selling it, why didn't they just legalize it?

[4dplane]

If the government wanted to make money by selling it, why didn't they just legalize it?

Selling crack at the local store would be to direct and judged immoral by the world. Americans are very good at devising ways in which to mask what they really do. People have always done this but I think America does it best.

Edited May 16, 2004 by 4dplane

[anonymous57]

Or maybe other countries do it so subtly that no-one notices...

[Mentalcase]

anonymous57 Posted on May 15 2004, 02:09 PM

 

Or maybe other countries do it so subtly that no-one notices... 

Right.

[xanubia]

Selling crack at the local store would be to direct and judge immoral by the world.

America has already been judged immoral

[Chauncy]

I don't think there is a whole governmental conspiracy when it comes to crack cocaine.

I mean it isn't hard to make you just need a few kitchen staples and some coke!

Someone posted earlier about "crack labs" and the fact that you don't hear about many being busted. I think the reason for this is the fact that one person, with an ounce of coke can make a tremendous amout of crack rock. Which in turn supplies alot of people. So it takes way less people and commotion to turn its use into an "epidemic". To make a permanent lab is silly and warrants a bust, because you can make enough on your stove by yourself.

Regradless if its leagal or not the only people that will smoke it are the people that smoke it

BUT with any lucrative form of profit the government most definetly has their way of gaining cash and it must be a tremendous amount of money because it has to be more than what it costs to medicate, treat, investigate, arrest, imprison and campaign against the whole crack epidemic.

It would seem more likened to the age old analogy "The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing" so-to-speak. Where you might have an individual agency that needs a quick (untraceable) source of cash to fund some covert, black-op without the whole governmental body knowing.

Similar to what went on with the CIA Air America campaign

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/CIA...rugs_WBlum.html