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I can give more context here.

See, in the US, possession of Crack cocaine (freebased cocaine) is punished much more harshly than possession of powdered, snortable cocaine.

This is because of the racial component. Snortable cocaine is the preferred drug of Wall Street and the rich, whereas crack was the preferred drug of the inner city (black people).

So the punishment for crack was set at something like 500 times worse than the nose candy version.

As a note here, the way to make crack is simply to throw cocaine in water and heat it while slowly adding baking soda, the active chemical is still the same between the two, it's just made more biologically available via freebasing. So yeah, stupid, racially motivated laws played a part in creating the slang term.