Not that I'm an expert on these things, but I've always known freebasing and crack to be two different things. Freebasing is very pure cocaine smoked; crack is a different form of cocaine that comes in chunks.
Richard Pryor set himself on fire when freebasing cocaine and that was...looks up date...1980. So yes, freebasing was absolutely a thing they'd be doing in 1982. I think crack was like mid-80s.
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Re: Smoking cocaine
Date: 2014-03-08 03:51 am (UTC)Richard Pryor set himself on fire when freebasing cocaine and that was...looks up date...1980. So yes, freebasing was absolutely a thing they'd be doing in 1982. I think crack was like mid-80s.