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      14 hours ago

      Crack isn’t “concentrated” cocaine, it’s just freebase cocaine.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_base

      In chemistry, a free base (freebase, free-base) is a term for the neutral form of an amine or other Lewis base. The term is used in the pharmaceutical industry in contrast to salt-based formulations like hydrochlorides. The amine is often an alkaloid, such as nicotine, morphine, and ephedrine, or derivatives thereof