America's Nightmare: The Crack Cocaine Epidemic That Shook the Nation

No jobs, sub par education, decline of the family unit, lack of interests by government in the inner city's plight, housing shortage and the increased consolidation of the population into housing projects, harsh policing and courts that only punished, not helped, boredom and despair with the chances of getting out of it all slim. All this leads to "...fuck it, its a Tuesday with nothing to do and nowhere to be, might as well sell mom's vcr and buy a few rocks..." 😫

I was there. The disparity in penalties for crack was demanded by black leaders, as crack was having a disproportionately devastating effect on the black community.

Everybody loves crack

I grew up outside the U.S. Capitol. We had crack come in while there was a resurgence of PCP (phenycicledine) simultaneously. Crack took off, took friends, family and PCP faded away. Man, the good old days! Love boat, love boat!

I used to sell "Bolivian marching powder"@k@,"Nose Nacho sauce" right at the time i was graduating🎓 in 2007 in Maryland. Used to change it to "rock candy" ❄️+bkpowder/🔥/💧 =🪨 nearly ruined my life i never used but picked up a opiate addiction on 4/2/2014 got clean.

Funny, he mentioned Garry web but not the way he died

still cant believe the cia got away with this lol

As someone that sold both in a previous life.... Cocaine and crack are not the same drug. The addiction level is completely different. There are no casual crack users. And ultimately a crack addiction is way more expensive than a cocaine addiction, because you need it every fifteen minutes.... And an addict will usually stay up for multiple days, doing it in a row.

This stuff is a nightmare

The difference in punishment between the two belays the difference in harm to society ... I have known hundreds of people all across the world habitually taking one with absolutely no effects to society and barely anyone the wiser while the other caused irreparable harm to society that is visually obvious to anyone that comes close to it.
The problem is NOT the substance itself but the people using and distributing it.

Thank you for highlighting the issue of the discrepancy of the poor and the consequences of drug related issues....crack is NOT more potent than cocaine. It's just smokable. That is it. That's all. 100:1 is insane. I mean dont do coke or crack. Seriously I'll tell you from experience neither is worth it. But damn man - well done

So is this why blacks commit crimes disproportionately?

You have some interesting facts but speech is terrible, hard to understand 😮

This is so lame I just put a mountain in my pipe

How people think the US is still the land of the free is beyond me

How people think the US is still the land of the free is beyond me

I been stone clean since 2009😊

there was no worse of a crack cocaine epidemic than any OTHER cocaine epidemic. crac was just the choice of the poor and non white. as a result penalties for "one use" amount of crack were five times harsher than a similar dose of white powder.

meanwhile there was no treatment facility, no help to quit (still isnt) no housing, no food, and etc... so...

Why the hell does your voice sound different? It's bothering me lol😂

It was a craze not a epidemic the young don't use it

Fbi put in the black community then did police profiteering when they arrest them sky high rate and give double time because the government profits form prisons system and have agenda

No one made you start on the pipe . Stop blaming others

you should do a video on the 1980 narco coup in Bolivia

CIA don't want to fix this problem, same as guns, geed way of culling certain groups

Don't even need to watch, the CIA brought in the coke.

Wow! Calm down drama queen your doom and gloom agenda to get clicks is showing. If your going to produce a documentary on a subject please remember there are those of us that lived through it. And while it was indeed devastating it didn't so clearly adhere to the race based agenda your trying to push here...and I haven't watched but 2 minutes yet

The Iran contra .

That great president, Ronald Reagan and his gang were responsible for allowing crack cocaine to be unleashed upon The United States! Crack was supposed to be unleashed on the blacks in East Los Angeles California to suppress the black vote.

What kind of monster could plot someting like this, Is discusting.

Joe Biden 94 crime bill... racial jungle... super predators...

I am 65 yo healthy male. I came from a poor background with few opportunities and intense discrimination toward me. Despite that I never smoked cigarettes, did any drugs, or tuned ro alcohol. I overcame these obstacles and have had a successful career. If I can do it, then pretty much anyone else can do it too. Although tempting to do, maki ng excuses and blaming others will never solve any problem

NEVEREVEREVERNEVER A FIRST HIT. MONKEY! YOULL STRIVE FOR WHAT THE FIRST WAS TILL YOU LOSE YOUR MIND OR LEARN.

PYCHOLOGIÇAL ADDICTION. NOT PHYSICAL! GO FIGURE!

But now everyone thinks the fbi and cia are valiant and not corrupt

AFFECTED THE BLK COMMUNITIES 👍

IT WAS ALL BY DESIGN FACTS 🥊

I KNOW 1st hand 🦾🐈‍⬛

TBC

🇺🇬❤️🦾🐈‍⬛🤐🤫✍️👍

The government investigated itself and found no evidence of guilt

It’s an objective fact that the US Gov’t is complicit for the crack epidemic.

Unless they're from Africa and moved to the states they're not African American. They're simply American. Stop the division dude.

The absurd point is crack and cociane are not physically addictive.

U know why they call them crack 'rocks'?

Because crack f*cking rocks!

All jokes aside, I asked my uncle one time what the crack epidemic of the 80s was like because I was born in 88 and too young to remember. Ill never forget what he said:

It was unimaginable how fast it spread... like wildfires. There had never been anything like it before, and there will never be anything like it again

It is disingenuous to blame all of the 80s woes on crack alone. If you were aware of what is happening on the street, the "crack epidemic" never ended.

"Crack is Whack" Whitney Houston

Much easier to understand on 2x speed 😆

The US government/CIA is solely responsible for this. I still wonder why us Americans haven’t taken back the power that’s rightfully and originally ours. The government doesn’t give us our rights, they are only there to protect them and us from enemies foreign and domestic.

Hunter Biden needs more crack $$$$$$

I was working in a hotel round 20years ago,,Athens Greece ,(Im Greek -American) I checked in an ex captain of the colombian army, he was about 55, we started talking, and explained to me why he quit in the early 90s, if what he said was true, well, what can I say, crazy stuff beyond any script hollywood can come up with

Thanks for sharing this program hope it reaches many homes as well learn to where it can fall an destroy god bless you for your time

I am a recovering addict who survived the crack epidemic. I haven't had any experience worse than active addiction. It impacts every area of life.
GOD helps us all.