“It makes for a bigger rock and a longer high,” Damico said. “Once they start making smokable forms of the drug it could spread like wildfire. “You’ve got all these meth labs already in place, already churning out the drug,” said Dan Largent, a methamphetamine expert at the state Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement. In the Inland Empire, known as “the speed capital of the world” because authorities say there are more outlaw labs there than anywhere in the country, methamphetamine already is the most commonly used illegal drug. And in Southern California, a smokable mixture of speed and crack-called “croak"-has been spreading.Ĭocaine consumption proliferated when crack first appeared in the inner cities in mid-1985, and authorities are concerned that the same thing will happen with smokable forms of methamphetamine. In Hawaii, a type of speed called “ice” that is sold in small crystals and smoked like cocaine-based crack already has become the islands’ most serious drug problem. The use of methamphetamine, or speed, already a major problem in the Inland Empire and other areas of the state, is expected to rival cocaine as the illegal drug of the 1990s as smokable forms of speed become more available.
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