That’s not the reality. Crack is coke + baking soda.
That’s basically true. A cocaine user with money will be able to purchase the powder at high prices because he can afford it. In theory that should be a good thing because it would make it not affordable to the poor. What some genius came up with though is to take the powder, mix it with baking soda and water and cook it in a pan until it forms a paste, and keep cooking it until it “cracked.” Then the plentiful fragments, “rocks” are sold cheaply, in a smokable form. And thus a miracle is born. Poor people too can avail themselves of cocaine.