Initially, crack had higher purity than street powder. ![]() As early as 1981, reports of crack were appearing in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Miami, Houston, New York, and in the Caribbean. It was cheap, simple to produce, ready to use, and highly profitable for dealers to develop. įaced with dropping prices for their illegal product, drug dealers made a decision to convert the powder to "crack", a solid smokeable form of cocaine, that could be sold in smaller quantities, to more people. Soon there was a huge glut of cocaine powder in these islands, which caused the price to drop by as much as 80 percent. ![]() In the early 1980s, the majority of cocaine being shipped to the United States was landing in Miami, and originated in Colombia, trafficked through the Bahamas and Dominican Republic. Within a year more than a thousand press stories had been released about the drug. The name "crack" first appeared in the New York Times on November 17, 1985. "Rocks" of crack cocaine, with a ruler (marked in inches) for reference
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