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Now I'd say meth. Meth is fairly easy to cook up, so even idiots can make it. Crack requires cocaine, so you've got to have a connection. The only connection you need for meth is some anhydrous ammonia and sudafed. I also think its considerably more addictive, and dangerous than crack.
I would have to say crack for the very reason that it is the last leg of a very long international production pipeline that is wrecking havoc from South American to the South Bronx. Meth ain't great but the criminal conspiracy behind cocaine production, importation and sale is just off the scale.
Which leads to more "Crime"... If you break it down to Murder, Attempted Murder and Theft - It is Crack handsdown. Even users of Crack are more apt to kill in order to get a fix so Murder is not limited to drug dealers killing each other which also happens more with Crack.
I would have to say crack for the very reason that it is the last leg of a very long international production pipeline that is wrecking havoc from South American to the South Bronx. Meth ain't great but the criminal conspiracy behind cocaine production, importation and sale is just off the scale.
I was leaning toward meth till I read this, then I had to thunks a bit more. The level of criminal activity involving the production and distribution of crack goes a lot further up the chain than that of meth. We don't have troops in foriegn countries trying to fight meth production. The latter is a homegrown problem with a far looser and less highly placed network. I was leaning to meth , initially, because that is the biggest problem where I live, so I see it far more. The quoted post made me think about that a bit. Meth cookers have a lot of 'independents' in their ranks. Anyone can build a meth lab. Cocaine requires a LOT more organization to produce. The power and money backing it is mind boggling. These cartels are countries unto themselves. Meth is an insidious drug, but, we aren't projecting force overseas to fight it either.
The "severity" of crime potential distills down to one factor---the impact it is likely to have on the ordinary citizen. The fact that there are more murders associated with cocaine over meth (20 instead of ten) has no meaning, because the bulk of those murders will affect only victims who are involved in the criminal activity itself. and it is a tiny number of crimes anyway. So that is a factor that discounts to zero in terms of the general public.
In fact, the murder rate in the USA is really quite irrelevant to the general public, because nearly all victims are engaged in some kind of association with the murderers, which is pretty easy for me and you to avoid in our everyday social intercourse. Risk aversion is a no-brainer.
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. The level of criminal activity involving the production and distribution of crack goes a lot further up the chain than that of meth. We don't have troops in foriegn countries trying to fight meth production. The latter is a homegrown problem with a far looser and less highly placed network. I was leaning to meth , initially, because that is the biggest problem where I live, so I see it far more. The quoted post made me think about that a bit. Meth cookers have a lot of 'independents' in their ranks. Anyone can build a meth lab. Cocaine requires a LOT more organization to produce. The power and money backing it is mind boggling. These cartels are countries unto themselves. Meth is an insidious drug, but, we aren't projecting force overseas to fight it either.
