Sami wanted to buy crack.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

You know, cocaine's a great product powdered cocaine but you've got to know rich white people.

Some 80 of Latin American cocaine reaching the US passes through the country at some point. President Álvaro Colom in February claimed that 40 of the 6,200 murders recorded in 2008 were linked to drug related violence.

And one of the sad parts of this is that indeed, among the many other ramifications of crack cocaine is that the most talented individuals in these communities this is what they were striving for.

Because you could smoke crack cocaine you can't smoke powdered cocaine and smoking is a much more efficient mechanism at delivering a high than is snorting it.

The air strike was called after Elda Ramírez (aka Mayerly ), considered a senior member of the FARC hierarchy, called a man who she believed was a drug dealer interested in buying cocaine.

Bajan Global Report links to a mainstream media news item about arrests made in a multimillion pound drug ring, noting that this was the 2nd major cocaine drug haul in six weeks leaving Barbados airport.

But if you think about it, I would say that in the last twenty five years, of every invention or innovation that's occurred in this country, the biggest one, in terms of impact on the well being of people who live in the inner city, was crack cocaine.