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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

How does one filter crack? I need to know for my pulmonary health.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I could be wrong, but doesn't the process of cooking the cocaine into crack kind of "filter" it so to speak?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not in the slightest. It only cuts it so you can increase your yield at the cost of needing to sell a fundamentally different product.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I've never been good at chemistry, so I'm probably misremembering...

    My understanding was that the cocaine's chemical structure is what reacts with the baking soda (and heat), leaving the adulterants to burn off. I guess unless they share the same property that binds the cocaine with the baking soda. The baking soda isn't meant to increase weight, there is an actual chemistry-based reason that it's used.

    It's why people stopped "free-basing" cocaine once crack came around. "Free-base" is a chemistry term, and the reaction with the baking soda is what makes it no longer "free-base."

    It weighs more because of the baking soda, but that's just like a substrate to deliver the cocaine, not an adulterant meant to make it weigh more.

    Again, could be wrong and don't feel like looking it up because I don't really care about crack or cocaine

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    I think the filter is to stop shards of burning crack from going into your mouth/throat.

    Cooking usually refers to removing salts necessary for mucous absorption to make smoked crack more palatable and injected crack not lethal. I haven't done crack yet.

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