Cook Cocaine With Baking Soda
Cooking Cocaine On A Spoon
I have read that • prior to the 1980's, those who wanted to partake of the smokable form of cocaine sometimes did so with a relatively involved and dangerous procedure involving a blow torch • as an example, Richard Pryor may have suffered accidental burns 'freebasing' cocaine in this way, in 1980 • smokable cocaine can be produce more safely by heating powder cocaine mixed with water and baking soda, and then letting the slurry crystalize by evaporating off the water My questions are: • When and how did the baking soda method become popular? I think it would have started in the early 80's in Los Angeles but I wonder if this can be pinpointed better. • Once this conversion method caught on, then did the dealers do the conversion themselves, or did they contract it out?