User talk:Hastur/Crack epidemic

I still don't get why making crack or other freebase cocaine is better than just selling the cocaine you have. Anybody know? I'll need a citation. Speculation and personal experience won't do.-- "Shut up, Brx." 15:23, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Easier to smoke. JubalHarshaw (talk) 15:28, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Is smoking better than snorting or injecting?-- "Shut up, Brx." 15:30, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It's far cheeper, hence the reason it's on the streets. and the reason it has a high jail term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_cocaine I don't get the chemistry, but baking soda is used instead of something called diethyl ether.
 * Cheaper--you can spread the product out more easily, and smoking (apparently) gets the drug into your body stronger/faster than snorting. JubalHarshaw (talk) 16:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

reference
Reinarman, C. and Levine, H., The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in America's Latest Drug Scare. In J. Best (Ed.). Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989; see also Reeves, J. L. and Campbell, R., Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/contents.html

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Reports-Link-Nicaraguan-Rebels-to-Cocaine-Trafficking/id-c69eaf370de9884f907a39efd90337d3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act

http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform/president-obama-signs-bill-reducing-cocaine-sentencing-disparity

http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/cocaine-and-crack-facts

http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/cocaine-and-crack-facts

Hunting for another reference
I would like to find an article from The Independent dated 1989. Unfortunately, their site archives only go back to 1992. I found the reference on wikipedia, but I'm not comfortable copying and pasting it without first reading it to make sure what's what.

Does anybody know how I could get a look at that article? A free look, of course. I can't afford to pay to research for RationalWiki articles. This is the ref in question, if anyone decides to help John Lichfield and Tim Cornwell, "'America has fought the wrong war': Did US policy in central America in the 1980s assist the growth of the Colombian cocaine cartels?" The Independent (26 August 1989)
 * } Thanks-- "Shut up, Brx." 03:09, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm bumping this, since there seems to be some activity today. If anybody knows how I can find this ref, please tell me-- "Shut up, Brx." 16:47, 20 September 2013 (UTC)