America's Nightmare: The Crack Cocaine Epidemic That Shook the Nation
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- Dive into the dark history of the crack epidemic that hit the United States in the early 1980s. Explore its roots in socio-economic struggles, failed policies, and racial disparities. Uncover a story of devastation that still echoes through generations. Watch now to understand the profound impact on communities and lives, revealing a side of America's history often overlooked.
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8:10 "The government investigated itself and found itself innocent"
SHOCKING
C.I.A. stands for "Crack In America"
You NEVER let a company or branch self regulate.
There are literally many times the government investigated itself and found itself guilty. You act like the government is just one force when really there are so many agencies that constantly fight each other. That’s what checks and balances are.
Was thinking the same thing
Literally many times the government found itself guilty. The government isn’t just one thing it’s many different parts working together and sometimes against. That’s why you can have court cases like United States v. Nixon even though Nixon was literally the president. Confirmation bias is crazy
I went to rehab for crack and alcohol on 3/12/22. Now I’m almost 2 years sober and trying to get off of Ziprasidone which is really intense to say the least. Feeling feelings again takes some getting used to.
How long were you smoking it for if you don't mind me asking.
I'm about 12 months into an every weekend habit.
It's going well so far 🙏
Yeah, I got off ice, tried to get off heroin 3 times, the feeling of feelings fucked me, I'm working on minimizing rather than jumping off, don't want to get on methadone, but I have been off ice for 5 years
@@JoeBaker-dj1vbI'm struggling with heroin too. I agree, it really is the fact that I feel things again when sober that I can't deal with
I wouldn't recommend trying to get off ziprasidone. If you've got bipolar or schizophrenia, you're going to make yourself more miserable than you need to be and more likely to find yourself in trouble.
@@XthepumpkinqueenxXx what things
I used to smoke rocks. I've been clean and sober for 6 years
Hell yeah! I don't know you but I'm proud of you!
That's one hell of an achievement! That's something to be proud of!
You deserve all the upvotes
Both my parents were in the same boat, dad passed in 2008 and mom has been clean for over 35 years
We stan
I work in a daycare nursery and the saddest thing I’ve seen over the years is the increasing amount of babies coming to us who were born addicted. It breaks my heart watching them go through withdrawal and deal with the long term effects of the drugs.
I was born in Washington DC in 1987.
I feel like my exposure to cocaine in utero led to my ADHD
@@LilBipperI think that's reaching pretty hard. I have almost cartoonish ADHD, and neither of my parents would've known what coke was if someone gave them a brick of it.
Sometimes, some of us just aren't as lucky as others.
@@LilBipperThere is no way to really know.
@@LilBipperye i dont think thats how it works mate
@@LilBipperand you base that upon what exactly?
I’ll tell you, NOTHING!
Honestly, that’s one of the dumbest comments I’ve read in a while on here. Stop making stuff up to try and play the victim, it’s pathetic
I had a neighbor in an apartment complex in Phoenix who smoked crack about 10 years ago. He said he's been smoking it since the crack epidemic of the 80's. He had a job and everything. He said there was still a crack scene out there and has been this whole time but it got much quieter.
Oof course there's still a crack scene. The only difference is the people who couldn't handle their shit got out of the game.
Crack is becoming very famous in my country. It has a lot of side effects but you can be factional while using... The same can't be said about heroin or fentynal
FYI the war on drugs is over and drugs won
It wasnt on drugs it was on the "undesiarables" (the non white)
Is it really over when millions around the world are still losing their lives/freedom because of draconian drug laws?
@@druidplayz2313 I doubt that ending up spending years in prison was seen as much of a win.
@@patrickquinlan3056 yes
@@druidplayz2313 undesirables? Obviously the highest desire of everyone in power is to fill white countries with as many of them as possible.
Idk what was worse, growing up around drugs and bikers or the raids and harassment the police did. Everything was as normal as I knew it in the early 90s, then suddenly hearing the door kicked in and yelling, they sat us all down while tearing our home apart. I know firsthand when kid’s experience this, their childhood is over and they are suddenly tossed into the adult world with no real idea of how to handle it.
My real condolences to you. A friend of mine and I were just talking about this. Once you've stared down the barrel of a gun held by a cop who's out of control, there is no normal after that. There's no apology, or compensation.
My own dad was an ex-biker, and while he definitely experimented in the 70’s when he was young and drugs were literally everywhere, he did NOT tolerate drug addicts in the neighborhood. (Seriously, he was an absolute papa bear. You were keeping your bad shit AWAY from his only kid or you were going to wake up naked in a ditch at the city limits.) Especially drug dealers. (Except weed. This was Canada so even when it was still illegal nobody really cared. Definitely nothing compared to meth or heroin or crack.) Police rarely did shit in our neighborhood- it was his own “buddies” that kept most of the drug dealing off our own block.
@@SoundShinobiYuki eh he sounds like a violent hypocrite.
@@apriljk6557😂
Least the ATF didn't find a dog to shoot
I sincerely believe that if you could calculate the number of people worldwide negatively affected by one single decision, the war on drugs is one of the worst policy choices in all of human history.
So america should have allowed it's culture to be destroyed by drugs?
What's the #1 cause of death for adults now?
Anyone with a brain could agree with this. The war on drugs is and has been an abject failure.
Agreed.
Meanwhile Hitler's final solution
Golden words of pure truth.
I always get shivers when I hear someone say “I miss the 80’s” as a political junkie knowing the 80’s is plagued by crack/cocaine, failure of Reganomics, and even HIV/AIDs. Really showed the haves/ well connected and avg individuals that just focused on covering themselves and living their life.
The 80s, 90s, and current day are no better and all were created and shaped by the same people.
Now they have smartphones ...
Nostalgia tends to file off all the jagged edges of any age. I was too young to know anything beyond my family; i imagine it's the same for others who've had decent enough early childhoods.
@@kenosabiExactly. The same people have been in control all of our lives. They wrote the Bible, they work on social engineering programs. They own our banks, media, healthcare, investments, and politicians. They have perfected slavery as we all pay dividends to them. And now they tell us men should be allowed in the little girls room.
The way Simon is able to cover these sensitive topics is incredible- both diving into the gritty, raw truth, while also being sensitive. Thank you Simon for your hard work ❤
@@acmhfmggrutf are you talking about?
@@acmhfmggruoh we read it, it just didn't make much sense. I get what you're TRYING to say, but it was not communicated clearly.
@@acmhfmggru I mean, I get your point, but if no one is buying what you're selling, does it matter that you're more right?
@@acmhfmggru didn't fucking ask 😂🤣
One thing, regarding the disparity in sentencing for crack vs cocaine… cocaine poses a much lesser risk to society than crack because crack is SO addictive, chemically it is far more addictive than cocaine despite have a shorter high. It does, at least when viewed from that angle, somewhat justify enforcing crack possession and sales more severely. I’m not defending or saying there wasn’t other double standards going on, but that’s something that needs to be seen not account.
I remember watching my neighborhood turn to absolute $**t and to this day it hasn't gotten any better. I'll never forget watching cops chasing people into my backyard and doing the "hard contact" arrests...or the house next to ours where my friend lived getting shot to $**t in broad daylight with us kids everywhere. This was like 1986 and even as a 10 yr. old, you noticed the rapid decline and how dangerous it became.
Same here. Watched my neighborhood crumble into anarchy over a 5 year period.
"It's called The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin
There is no American dream! It was a lie. There are individual dreams. And Carlin was in the club!
@@maggiemae7539He never claimed not to be in it, he said "it's a big club and you ain't in it" but that doesn't mean he wasn't speaking the truth.
Now that liberal ideas have made the western world a nightmare..I could agree..leftist destroyed the american dream.
"Political correctness is facism pretending to be manners". George Carlin
"Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people's language with strict codes and rigid rules. I'm not sure that's the way to fight discrimination. I'm not sure silencing people or forcing them to alter their speech is the best method for solving problems that go much deeper than speech."
George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?,..
Well george carlin definitely should not be crying about the American dream
I have to say I watched this with my heart in my throat.
This has often been taboo to speak about in the US but what I see as our problem.
Not the biggest or smallest problem. It is the problem.
Thank you for addressing this unseen and taboo problem.
Maybe it’s been taboo and not mentioned much in your circle and your preferred media, but it’s been discussed on many outlets and media for years. Glad you feel like it’s important to address though.
my mother and i both smoked crack and did opiates and fent and heroin. my mother died from fentanyl laced crack. she o.d. and died. she gone. i struggled for years with these addictions and have put together a few months of being sober
Well done ! Much love! Keep fighting!
Don't ever give up! I didn't!
It's the hardest thing in the world to do!
Thinking of u!!!
That’s amazing ❤ I’m so sorry to hear about you mother 😢drugs will take everything from you until there’s nothing left. Don’t let the drugs win 💪
Well done friend. Keep up with it! I’d suggest trying some counseling or something along those lines. There’s always ways to pay for it and will never be out of pocket. Counseling saved me. I came home from the war and was on dope for years to self medicate ptsd and depression. Since coming home from the army, I’ve been to prison twice for drugs but finally got clean from having a good counselor that helped me work on myself. Since then Ive strung together a few months, then a few years and went back to college then grad school. I have become a counselor myself and love it. Stay with it and stay on top of it. It’s never too late to realize our potential.
Congrats. I'm so sorry to hear about your mother, but you've already starting finding a positive even through that.
There's a content creator named JD Delay that was a meth addict and career criminal for 20 years, and now he's a recovery coach. He's also funny as hell and a solid guy IMO. If you ever need support, there are a lot of folks taking it one day at a time in his comments. And he's trying to build a an actual community through his channel, so there's very little garbage. Best of luck.
I started drinking when i was 12, then smoking weed at 13. Around 17, I experimented with opioids and cocaine. I struggled with prescription opioids for years. I finally got on suboxone at 23 and my opioid cravings were gone. I still felt i had a void to fill, I never felt whole. I was 27 when i tried crack for the first time. I opened pandoras box.. my life hasn't been the same since. Nothing has taken me down quicker than crack. Its a miserable existence being on thay crap and i wouldn't wish that on anyone. I have 15 days clean today. But despite the misery that drug has brought me, i still crave it! Its such an insidious disease and drug! I really hope i can build a life worth living and never touch that shit again
Damn hope you get clean, keep fighting
You can do it
Get a sponsor and work the 12steps tap into a higher power of your understanding and help the next suffering addict and go to meetings .
Hey man! 15 days is fucking awesome! It took me losing my daughter when i was 7 months pregnant with her to stop smoking rocks! Horrible feeling being pregnant and STILL unable to stop. Even worse feeling that by smoking it I caused my daughters death. Will have to live with that getting forever. She gave her life for me though. Haven't touched it in 14 months. It gets easier I promise. It takes a while. Just don't use today and keep doing that. Don't use today. I also highly recommend NA. I really like going to meetings and talking freely to people who don't judge me and listening to the advice of others who have been clean and happy and do not crave drugs anymore. Good luck to you! Be proud of yourself but stay vigilant!
I hope you're doing well, mate. 🙏🏾
I grew up in a very poor neighborhood in the 80s and I personally watched every single person get addicted to it. The whole neighborhood either smoked or sold it. Very hard times.
I work as a counselor in D&A. It’s a huge battle.
Mushrooms did wonders in my life. Over the course of my life, I've suffered from uncontrollable, depression, anxiety, alcohol, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for a long time and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. This is something that really needs to be used globally to help people with similar health challenges. I've been sober for 6 years and have my life back.
Congrats on your recovery. Most people don't realize that psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source? I have suffered from years of addiction, anxiety, and severe ptsd, thinking I got my panic attacks under control, they've come back with a vengeance, and I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't. It's absolutely crippling me, I'm in Switzerland and it is hard to get a reliable source here. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
This needs to be a hour long episode honestly, Simon
It does. Simon, you were talking way too fast.
One of your best ones yet, Simon.
This is an off topic but I need Simon to go over TB’s effect on the world. More than 100 years since treatments were invented, more than 1 million people still pass every year from a disease that has been neglected.
Very true. Very real.
Thank you for covering this Simon
The crack wars was absolute insanity, I can't even accurately recall how many people I saw shot down in the streets or dead in yards, left there like an ornament, the violence was off the charts and utterly random, just angry, broken, poor people heavily armed and ripped out of their minds on high octane jet fuel in a pipe for just a few dollars. People today can't really understand what those times were like, and be thankful for that.
This is so true, things are bad now, but growing up in the 80s? Even where I grew up we feared the drug fueled gangs. Even though we were not experiencing the insane level of violence most major cities were. American cities in the 80s and early 90s were war zones
Hang out in some impoverished South Western neighborhoods overrun by meth. It's not all that different, really. The main thing is that it isn't publicized the same due to the addicts being Native Americans or white people.
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I’m a serial subscriber of all 568 of your channels so I listen to and enjoy alot of the essays you guys work on , ..THIS ☝🏽 video hits home for me. As a child my mom left me in a park at night and I have so many vivid memories from 3 years old always obsessing over wtf was happening, why was I always transfered to different families, when will see my family again, how long is this going to last , how long is that going to last, …long story short before the tangent clock starts ; I was able to answer those questions and more , I found peace and forgiveness with my family because I learned we were just victims of something bigger than us and for as long as I can remember I’ve been exposed to the existence of something so powerful that didn’t care how much I missed my mom. Imagine being 2 seconds in my shoes : the 1st second you’d have to live knowing that the person who signed your moms rights away and forced you and your sibling to be separated is the current president of the country and the 2nd second you’ll understand this nameless feeling you get after finding out his own son uses the very substance that you were told made someone a criminal to everyone but luckily the 2 seconds are up before the cognitive dissonance sets in 😊. Keep up this work because alot of us adults are just curious children whos always wanting to know who what where why and how EVERYTHING is because weve personally accepted and respect the facts of realities harshest truths. 🤷🏽♂️ THANK YOU 🙏🏽
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When you mention the disproportionate treatment of crack users, but not which politician pushed it hard only to change his mind when his son kept getting caught smoking crack.
C’mon man… just one politician?..
Hell, a couple politicians got busted for crack.
Nixon started it. He won an election into the office of the US President with it, amongst other law and order promises.
People change, but the hypocrisy in politics is staggering
@@presmasterflash7555 ya but that one is in control of the country
Well stated, well written!
Well done sir. Well done.
Outro closing words gave me chills
My ex got into crack...I'd never seen a "crack monster" before that 😢
My wife got me into crack. We still smoke it
There isn't a single member of my family not touched by the crack epidemic, my first interaction with a cop was a raid. And the effects of this epidemic will never end for us.
I grew up in Philly during the '80s and '90s. It was hell. I didn't expect to survive into adulthood. The first time I felt safe was after I joined the Marines to escape. My uncle died from crack and jail. Crack was just one of many things that had disproportionate negative social effects on low-income and minority neighborhoods. The police literally dropped a C4 bomb supplied by the feds, from a state police helicopter, on a house, and burned down 2 blocks while keeping firefighters from doing anything about it. Anyone trying to escape the fire was shot at. Everyone that burned to death was deemed suicide even the children. Just look up the 1985 MOVE Bombing. Even if you had the money to get out you still had to deal with redlining even though it was illegal. The only thing more destructive than crack was welfare the government would dangle in front of women simply for kicking the father or their children out of the home.
It’s insane how the MOVE bombing isn’t an international scandal. Over here in the UK when I talk about it most people look at me like I’m wearing a tin foil hat. Then I direct them to Wikipedia
What did welfare do?
How did welfare encourage women doing that
@@mockdr I can't speak for all locations but in Philly, single mothers were prioritized for Section 8 housing. If her taxable household income was too low she could get further government aid paying for utilities, food, daycare, etc. If she lived with anyone reporting taxable income it counted against what she could get from the government so anyone in the home had to be working off the books or not working at all. It's not likely any woman would allow a man to freeload off her for very long so if someone was there it was most likely not the father and not someone in a legitimate profession, or she was using someone else's address to defraud the government. Single mothers get a larger tax credit claiming up to 2 children as dependants. Something to remember is that child support is not taxable income either and the number of children she has with each man is considered for how much she gets from each. Basically, kick the man out of the home and get free money from him and the government.
The way it affected my hometown of Oakland. I saw so many teachers lose their lives and jobs and neighborhoods wiped off
This is and will continue to be one of America's saddest stories in her history... unless, like always, they just retell it.
But wait! There's more!
no seriously, America keeps finding worse and worse ways to enslave people. Soon America will become Nazi Germany without even noticing. Trump uses same tactics to gain power, that hitler used...so yhea...hard to unsee more and more parrallels after that
They retell it every year they don't completely dismantle the war on drugs and the peripheral industry that profits from it..
@@acmhfmggru Not sure if sarcastic or just ignorant and not aware of the history.
@@acmhfmggru I genuinely hope someone you love experiences soul crushing addiction, and I'd like to see this same energy
@DETRACT0RD00M I hope you don't experience anything like that and you come to realize your evil wishes are just that.
Don’t forget that 5 years in prison was mostly in private Prisons. Sad
@JG-MV Correct--it's just been legalized nationwide under the rubric of "justice".
The Big Apple was super scary in the 80s as well as super successful.
Can you do an episode on the Stasi from East Germany or the Spanish Missions in California from the 18th to 19th century?
Just ideas
I would love LOVE a full episode on Gary Webb and his work including the Panama Papers and his assassination!
If you're in the fight for substance recovery or sobriety, I share with you my well-wishes and one piece of wisdom I heard long ago. "It's only about from the time you wake up, until when your head hits the pillow. If you got up before 11am today and didn't use, you've been sober longer than me."
Top Marks! Excellent Video Simon!!!❤️🔥🫡🐺
Dark times. As someone who lived through this and worked in an ancillary capacity (I was a kid), this is what taught me that elected officials are completely out of touch with what regular Americans deal with. Nancy Reagan and her stupid "just say no" along with D.A.R.E were delusional. When I was 15, a friend of mine (also 15) pulled up in front of my house in a brand new Mercedes 190E. It was his. He bought it. It was in his uncle's name but his uncle was quick to tell you who actually put the cash up. Telling kids in Brooklyn and the Bronx to just say no is like telling a woman nowadays not to open an OnlyFans account. You try telling a 15, 16, 17 year old boy to turn down $600 *_per day_* on average (that's $1628 in today's money) to go work fast food or retail for $3.35 an hour. That was on average. You'd make a few grand on the 1st and the 15th (when government benefit checks arrived). I wasn't allowed to do that but most of my friends did. That's what the government didn't get. People doing this stuff didn't care about criminal penalties. If you get sent away for 15 years but you left behind a million dollars in cash for your family to live on, that was considered a fair trade. No "straight" job available to them was going to produce that kind of money, after all.
Thank you for sharing this documentary.I never realised the true situation in the USA in the late disco 80's.. greetings from the UK.
The trap beat used at the end here is so tasteful and fitting. Bravo to the production team.
10 years of nothing but trap beat. Hope this doesnt last forever. Everything sounds the same.
Born 1982, I've lived and gone thru what this drug does to a family. Both parents are still on it till this day. I hate it
I'm sorry man
@jazzykrisis1783 I appreciate your kindness.The shit I could tell ppl. I hate that it's glorified in our culture as a hero amongst the deprived. It's evil in every way.
My grandmother did crack and from what I’ve heard of the time before that, my life would’ve been so much different if she stayed in my moms life during her formative years :(
My wife and I are addicted to crack. A few months back we went to the wife’s mother’s house we walked in to find her mother and a friend sitting at the table smoking crack. Whoa.
Awesome man
It just goes on, look at other drugs in
recent times in the opiod crisis too.
Yes, the Iran Contra in the mid 1980's.😮
Thank you for this. It means you care
Imagine if the soviets had thought of weaponizing drugs during the cold war. The US would have been an apocalyptic setting by now
My friend you are closer to the true then you think, I want you to look into the Contra affair.
The Chinese are doing it with the fentanyl.
China is obviously doing this now with fentanyl, but since we owe them so much cash what are we gonna do about it…….
@Hoztag3 I wrote the same thing, and the comment was deleted.
@@luisa.acevedo3326 and you wonder why people leave utube in droves.
One thing, regarding the disparity in sentencing for crack vs cocaine… cocaine poses a much lesser risk to society than crack because crack is SO addictive, chemically it is far more addictive than cocaine despite having a shorter high. It does, at least when viewed from that angle, somewhat justify enforcing crack possession and sales more severely. I’m not defending or saying there wasn’t other double standards going on, but that’s something to be aware of in general about crack and why it is so destructive.
They are both cocaine, crack is just in its freebase chemical composition and therefore smokable, unlike cocaine hydrochloride which isn’t smokable. The government punishing crack users was just hysteria with no real basis in science.
No comment about Gary Webb's definitely-not-at-all-suspicious death?
Gary Webb 100% committed suicide and if you don't believe me you're a conspiracy theorist who doesn't know the facts.
In the early 80's, I knew of a person who needed bypass surgery. They lived in CT and their cardiologist suggested to them that because of so many surgeons using cocaine and also because of the aids unknowns at the time, that it would be safer for them to have their surgery done in Wisconsin.
It was a joke at the office, how many of the managers were high on cocaine at work. It was definitely seen as something for the better paid employees. One of those luxuries for the well-to-do.... The first time I heard of crack cocaine was in the late 90's. Perhaps because I'd been on a different continent since the mid 80's.
I’ve always wondered why crack wasn’t crushed up and snorted?🤔wouldn’t it basically just be super pure coke then?🤔Like I’m curious as to why ppl didn’t buy crack, crush it up, then sell it as cocaine for much more $?🤔I haven’t touched stimulants other than caffeine/nicotine since I started getting anxiety nearly 20 years ago, so I’ve never really learned that much about cocaine/crack
No. Coke and crack are basically the same thing, but coke is the much more pure version of the drug. That's why coke is so much more expensive than crack. Crack is usually miscolored and slightly yellow, while coke is pure white powder. The more pure the product, the higher the melting point as well. Supposedly good coke melts around 170 degrees. I wouldn't know the last part as fact tho lol Never done either because I know it would be a problem for me. I've done a lot of other drugs, but never coke or crack
@@combatwombat594I've never done crack but I've had many cocaine users say crack is a waste of perfectly good coke
Very simplified: Crack is the freebase version of cocaine. When people speak of regular "cocaine", they are referring to the hydrochloride salt. The freebase of any drug = smoke, the salt = snort (or other routes of administration).
Thanks to both for helping clear that up! And yeah I definitely feel like my heart would blow up if I messed with it…
@@TheBoiseKiwia bit of a clarification, if you know…Would nothing happen if you snorted the freebase/crack? Like would it just drain and be absorbed by the stomach?🤔 I’m guessing it would not be healthy or even possible to smoke “normal” cocaine? Pretty much the closest I came was from leaves and lozenge/mint kinda things when my family went to South America…It was definitely helpful dealing with the elevation!
rom 11:30 -13:40 it sounds like Simon ⭐is rapping and it sounds fantastic! Kudos to production! I remember these days happening around me.
Love this channel 😊😊😊
Good job ...simon
Lots of uninformed people in these comments saying how big a failure the war on drugs has been. That is just objectively wrong. The war on drugs has been extremely successful in doing exactly what they wanted it to do. It's just that what those in power wanted out of it, wasn't what they told us, and not what most think the point of it was or should have been. But it has accomplished exactly what was intended. That's the saddest part.
Actually you just seem paranoid 🤣
@ArtSmosh1274 no, the intent was never to curb use, they wanted to hurt minority communities, wanted to increase the prison population, the one part they I wouldn't say they wanted would be all the death, but they were at least willing to accept it.
bingo
I almost came in super hot, but then I finished your reply. I'm glad I did, because you're 100% correct.
@@zogar8526 What was the motivation for filling prisons?
12:18…. With the beat in the background it makes it sound like this dude is spitting flames 😂
Oh yes Gary Webb who "unalived himself" by two shots to the back of the head, and we are supposed to believe that LOL!!!!
Thank you for mentioning Webbs "suicide "
It was 100% a suicide. You clearly don't know the facts of the case, or how firearms work.
Conspiracy theorists, go home.
slick ending statement.
The Brain Blaze crossover we didn't know we needed! Coooooocccaaaaaiiinnneeeee!!!!!!
I saw CA, CSA and CSE being a child of parents swallowed in this epidemic. Only I'm fair skinned. Ppl didn't expect Crack to be such a huge problem for all communities and the assumption that it was only a problem of minority communities contributed a TON to my own getting lost in the cracks. I wasn't able to get out till I was 17. I am irrevocably damaged, and have had to work all my life to just not-become-some-serial-killer. This Epidemic WAS SO MUCH LARGER than even this article can encompass. I thank the stars I didn't end up having Children and passing the damage on.
Don't want to go to prison for selling drugs? Then don't sell drugs.
No it's easier to blame the CIA and Christopher Columbus and whoever else you can think of.
That sound when years popped up on the screen was tripping me out, thought there was a weird fly or bug flying near me
Everyone thank President Reagan
Yep he was the kingpin
Biden isn’t innocent.
Ahhhh.... Man, my older sister fell into the cycle of addiction to cocaine. She dragged my older brother into the habit.
Had to cut her out of my life after she stole over $800 from me after I specifically told her I wasn't going to lend her money anymore. She kept smoking and snorting any income away.
My brother just "used all his paycheque on uber rides" last month. I'm scared he's still using despite promising to quit. If he keeps up the habit, I'm gonna hafta cut him out too.
I've tried it myself and I don't understand how they got so addicted. It doesn't seem like the cost is worth the short high.
Usually I have a moral or uplifting note to end a comment on but this, man, I have nothing. It's a huge problem and while I do agree we should be decriminalizing drugs, like we did here in Canada with marijuana, but.... IDK. My own family aren't the only example of this particular drug destroying people and their loved ones.
Sadly, in my younger days, I made this for myself and 'friends'. Coke was bad enough, but crack tasted like 'more'. It didn't kill me or ruin my life, but getting off the crap was the hardest thing I've ever done.
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so i'd guess... just saying "No" didn't work
It's not just using drugs that is at the heart of the issue, but all of the secondary stuff that comes with it. People who are drug addicts are more likely to commit crimes to support their habits, more likely to get caught up in violence either when buying or selling drugs and more likely to overall have a negative impact on society because of how they treat their friends and family. While we can certainly get people treatment for the addiction, the other crimes related to the drug use can't just be ignored and have to be punished.
As a drug addict and someone trying to quit crack and meth, I 100% agree.
crack is cooked by mixing baking soda and coke, how does it become more pure than the cocaine that you added baking soda to
it heats it up and converts it into a freebase form that hits harder and faster when consumed by inhaling the smoke, i think some of the impurities are burned out when its being cooked leaving you with a highly concentrated end result
There is no pure cocaine powder. It’s the leaf that is pure
i couldnt stand the noise for the dates, i always flinched
i would really like to learn about this topic....
Veteran of the War OF Drugs
I wouldn’t be proud of that. The war on drugs was a catastrophic failure.
@@PeachM0de Not pride, my friend, Fact.
Iv done both and I can tell you unequivocally that they are not the same at all as Simon stated early in the video.
Basically one puts you in a good mood and is mildly addicting….and the other makes you insane crazy and want to kill someone for the next hit. Guess which is which…..
You nailed it! I too have been there.
I’ve never once heard anyone say that cocaine is “mildly addictive.” If by mildly, you mean extremely, then you’re correct. You’re right on the money regarding crack, though.
Saying Cocaine is mildly addicting is fucking wild
@@Mikeym426 Depends on the person, some can take it or leave it, others cant get enough. Not all drinkers are alcoholic.
They're chemically almost identical. That was his point. That's always the point when that topic gets brought up. Crack is literally just coke with the hcl cleaved off, giving it a lower melting point. That's it. It's not magic.
The effects it can have can be wildly different. But that doesn't change them being the exact same chemical or the gross nature of the 100:1 sentencing guidelines.
how do you guys manage to make so many videos on so many channels so often?
One question how does crack cocaine a drug that is smoked lead to HIV
I'd love to be as innocent as you are
people spread germs with saliva when passing pipes. sometimes the pipes are heated so hot they break and people still use a tiny broken glass stem to take their hits which can cut your lip and then if you have blood from an open wound that can spread disease.. crack can also be injected if its been modified with lemon juice or something acidic i believe
Crack can also be injected. You just add a little lemon juice to your mixture to break it down
@@whyyy1914 oh I didn't know that, thanks
@@whyyy1914 why do you know this?
I'm European and never fully realised just how bad this was, wow.
"swept under the rug" 🎯 I've lived in some rough areas in the south and FULLY agree with this. There's so little help for anyone struggling with addiction as well. People get more excited to lock them up than get them actual help. The government is only after our money, as always. Gatta keep them rich folk happy 🥴 Sadly.
It would literally be cheaper to offer them help. It would be a win win. But they don't actually care about cost (financial or emotional) to the people living in those areas, only about how much money them and their friends can make.
Yep. As an ex addict I can say this is true. Even those harm reduction centers look at you like youre crazy if you ask for help. They don't know where to send you.
@@neoxyte treatment like that makes me want to change this country 🥺 I'm so sorry for what you've been through.
I've had friends in the past who struggled with addiction. It was very difficult for them to get help too. More often than not they were just told to do better a few times then thrown to the wind. One of them passed a few years ago and I can't help but think if we actually treated the addiction rather than others greed and bias, he'd still be here. I hope I live to see the day we do better.
@@RevShifty EXACTLY 💯
They just throw addicts in jail
What is that bang sound between certain edits? It's been in videos for a while now
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
The War on Drugs' failure can be blamed entirely on a basic economic principle that everyone who took an econ class should know by heart: If demand for a good or service exists, a market will form to meet that demand.
Criminalizing something doesn't actually stop people doing that thing. It never has, and it never will.
The background music is a bit loud.
The difference in drug penalties between crack and cocaine wasn't because of racism. Many black community leaders wanted tougher penalties for crack because it was turning black neighborhoods into 3rd world warzones.
Crack, bigger in black communities, and 5 times the prison sentence compared to regular coke. No coincidence.
ding, ding, ding, ding, ding
Compare violent crime rates between coke users and crack users
Actually it is a coincidence , but go on, make everything about race
Reagan has a LOT to answer for.
So does Clinton and Biden they fast tracked the wR on drugs that destroyed African Americans
Biden isn’t innocent.
You must actually have had a binge or three with it to find out just how luxurious of a vice it actually is
Now we have meth and fet
Pretty much. Crack is pretty expensive now
And u have all the drugs laced with tranq….
I dont know how people can simply not care ruining people's lives.
Simon saying it was mainly a Black thing is dead wrong. The crap was everywhere around here and the jails were full of all skin colors because of it. There are many other factors for disparity in sentencing, like not hiring a good lawyer. How and why and where you got caught too. Dealer or user? It brought hell with it to everywhere and everyone touching it.
Shhhh… lol
It's rampant in ireland along with benzos.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -13th Amendment to the US Constitution
Can't have slaves without convicts!
Yep
Here's a thought, don't do illegal things and you won't be a convict. Novel idea isn't it.
@@vindictaetmortem748 Here's a thought, don't enslave your own people, no matter what they did. Now that's radical!
@Fireballun last I checked thats been over since 1865... schmuck. Try again.
@vindictaetmortem748 not everyone in jail actually committed any crimes..... simple research would tell you this.
Brilliant
The penalties for crack were prompted and created by politicians from communities where crack was the most viscous. No one seems to remember that fact
That doesn’t take away from the fact the CIA brought it in then punished the people affected. But sure yeah it’s the communities fault.
@@Ahmad-wb4wu I've heard that claim about the CIA many times, yet I've never seen any evidence to back up that claim. So I'm going to assume its another conspiracy theory like the one about the CIA doing a coup in the Ukraine. In fact there are so many conspiracy theories involving the the CIA, that you might as well replace CIA with the illuminati at this point.
No it was wall street fat cats. Pay no attention to effects the epidemic was having on the actual communities affected or what a trafficking amount is despite the episode expressly noting the differences in the amount consumed by a user in one sitting.
Poor people can't afford to get into politics, our politicians' communities weren't affected. Their campaigns get lots of donations from private prisons companies though.
@@andiward7068 Tis a fine story. No how about one the reflects reality and not a shitty 2000s thriller.
Crack is so overrated, the thing is once you've had one pipe you can't help but keep chasing that first one till you've spent all your money and then you regret it and feel like shit
Even if the racism part hadn't existed when it came to the different sentences the rich and Powerful would still be getting lenient sentences while the non-rich would get regular or worse sentences
@@Hwje1111 Better lawyer don't always mean more lenient sentence but I think it sure does make it more probable.
True the rich and powerful like OJ Simpson.
"Unfair doesn't even begin to cut it."
I see what you did there 😂😂
The reason crack was treated more strict then regular cocaine is because it was a bigger problem. More people both used crack and died from it. Not to mention a lot of places didn't treat crack worst. However since Crack is a cheaper but less potent drug. Then people need to consume more of it to get an equivalent high that less cocaine would give you. Not to mention it doesn't last as long so you need to keep more on you for repeat use.
That's not how it happened, in the slightest..... like Simon pointed out, the people in charge of making and enforcing the laws were doing too much cocaine to try to do away with it.
It happened basically the exact same way Anslinger criminalized pot.... minorities were smoking weed, alcohol prohibition was failing because rich asshats refused to stop drinking, so they had to do something.
Is this a follow up to the Dahmer video on Casual Criminalist?
Simon, the main man of sniff, doing a video decrying the mess old Charlie makes? Hypocrisy? Possibly. Profitable? Definitely.
Crack and powdered coke are not the same, one is made more bio-available through a freebasing process, it's a much more intense high delivered over a shorter period which is why the individual often becomes more unstable.
I smoke Crack as Crack, Heroin (and it's proper Afghan Heroin, no Fentynal cut in) and Cocaine is reasonably cheap and readily available anywhere in this country, Crack ain't as addictive as people make out as I can smoke it then I don't touch it for a while the same with Heroin but Alcohol (which is legal and taxed) mixed with Benzodiazapines are my go to drugs and which Alcohol in particular has got me so bad that my drug key worker and doctors have told me not to stop drinking because I can go into withdrawal and fit, coma, even death. Drugs of all types mess people up in different ways but at least I'm cutting down my Alcohol and Diazepam, Temazepam, Alprozolam in take to hopefully be free from all this s***! Because I'm 43 and been doing drugs since I was 12!And I need to get free, that's all I want. 🏴🇬🇧👍