out for medical purposes. Opiates at the time were mixed with the cocaine. Its uses varied from minor to major pain relief, and even believed by Sigmund Freud to be safe method to cure male impotency and also cure forms of depression. Not to mention that the original ingredient in coco-cola was actually cocaine. This helped the soft drink established the type of recognition that it receives today. Yet in 1903 the drug was removed from the product because it was later found to be very hazardous to your health. It caused its users to avoid eating and sleeping for several days. Not to mention its user also displayed very aggressive psychotic behaviors. And the effects were even worse when it came to getting off the drug, because the body adapts to the chemicals and becomes very dependant on the drug. Today the most popular form of cocaine is crack.
             Crack was introduced on the streets of America in the 1970's. Its use and abuse spread like wild fire destroying the bodies of their users as well as ruining the family as a whole. The idea of turning the powdery drug into a hard rock form was to test the purity of the drug by smoking it in a pipe made of thin glass. A huge question for many people, including the members of this group is "How is this drug being pumped into the community. Some say that the cocaine is getting in from Cuban drug sells, and others say that our government maybe dirty. Virtual Truth Commission Telling the Truth for a Better America is a website that has several examples of the corruption of the government. Here is one example, taken from a snippet of the Virtual Truth Commission website:
             "In August of 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a three-part investigation by Gary Webb into the U.S. government's links to the trade in crack cocaine in South Central Los Angeles. Webb's investigation uncovered links between the Central Intelligence Agency's covert war against Nicaragua...