“…Pharmacologically, crack produces more rapid behavioral response, has higher abuse liability, induces more intense psychotropic effects, but provides a ª highº of shorter duration than powder cocaine. 1,2 As a result, crack has generated markets in which users m ake multiple purchases per day from m ultiple sources, use cash and exchange of goods and services (such as sex) to obtain the drug, use crime to generate the cash, and often execute transactions in public venues. 2± 5 Broadly, crack has been implicated for its links to structural or market-related crime, economic compulsive crime, and pharm acologically induced crime.…”