Freebase cocaine is the technical name for crack, they're not different drugs. Look it up.
In freebase form it's almost completely pure due to the process and the route of administration by smoking. You're basically getting pure cocaine into your body in one of the fastest acting routes of administration (except for IV) so yeah, it's VERY addictive.
Definitely different. Crack has baking soda. Freebase either ether or ammonia. Free base is more potent. It's really semantics. Nothing to argue over. Is rigatoni the same as spaghetti?
And Nicky Barnes was buying from Italians in the 70s. I believe he ratted one few. The guy that Chazz wrote about in Bronx tale. Fat Gigi I think supplied him. I may be wrong. I wasn't even born yet. But it's what I understand to be true.
