• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          I was under the impression that crack was a cheap mrans of freebase. 70s were powder, but also mostly “diet pills” (if you’re lucky it was amphetamines or methylphenidate, everything else was even harder on your body)

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          Did the cia invent crack? I was under the impression the cia was just selling huge amounts of cocaine to the inner cities and it was the ingenuity of the drug dealers that invented it

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            I would believe either. But the fact is the CIA dumped loads of illegal substances on poor communities and may it may not have dropped a recipe or two along the way because someone in power may have wanted a reason to start a war on poor people of color.

            That’s what I heard, at least.