C. Crack had a massive impact on America and part of why

Frack pulls so many people down so fast is the way that it impacted your body.

The stories about the frightening addictiveness of crack definitely

created a certain reputation. I remember in the early 90s I was just starting at Rolling

Stone magazine and I was trying to make a name for myself and I kept toying with the

idea of like doing one of these George Plimpton first-person stories

where like I'll go and try crack and describe the experience.

And I was like, okay, you know that you do have an obsessive slash addictive personality and like is there a chance that I could wake up three years later and be like,

damn, I never turned that story and could I never stop doing a damn crack?

Yes, there is a chance.

And maybe a 1% chip, but there is a change.

And I'm like, yo know if there's a chance you

can get addicted to crack maybe we should just not do that like don't even take a chance

and you know it was it definitely seemed like you know one hit and you could lose your life and

people in the documentary talk about that like it affected you and you know you have

Dr Hart you know who talks about this the the

chemical of it it affects the body so rapidly you get high at so high so rapidly and

then the high leaves you rapidly which makes you wanting more.

Right. Yeah I mean I think that that was really important that you know we talk to people kind of have a monetize with people talking

about you know once they took took their first hit you know like what what their

first hit was like you know and you know it's it's like you know I think you know crack was like you know when you took

ahead it was like you were knocking on heaven's door right but no But no one door opened, you know, and so, you know,

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