Hoffman is credited with helping Biden secure passage of numerous pieces of legislation including the criminal provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley and legislation closing the gap in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine.
The lyrics of Boomin' Words from Hell developed from the turmoil of Detroit at the time, including the era's rise in crack use.
Conference On Crack and Cocaine is the UK's leading charity supporting drug professionals and organisations with the issues relating to stimulant drugs such as crack, cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and MDMA (ecstasy).
Cartman's grandmother dies and to the family's shock, Cartman inherits her life savings of one million dollars (since she assumed the rest of the family would just spend it all on crack).
Despite showing an average income higher than that of other regions of the city, it has many homeless individuals and pockets of poverty, such as the region known as Cracolândia (lit. "Crackland"), which has recently been undergoing a controversial process of revitalization by the city government, accused of promoting "social hygiene" through gentrification.
The same narrator from the Brain commercial tells viewers that in the past two years (1988 and 1989), over 5,000 people in Canada and the U.S. have died from using crack or cocaine.
Originally from the streets of Southwest Detroit, the brothers started selling $50 bags of crack in high school and by the early 1990s were distributing thousands of kilograms of cocaine in over 21 states.
Demarest was instrumental in directing the Willie Horton message during the 1988 presidential campaign and in setting up the crack buy in Lafayette Park that kicking off President Bush's war on drugs.
In the season 2 episode Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare she and Dennis develop an addiction to Crack cocaine which is brought up a few times in later episodes.
In "Soundtrack of My Life", she talks about her life story from the relationship with her mother, cutting crack for her boyfriend, and drug and alcohol consumption.
Fleeing Jamaica on murder charges, he emigrated to the United Kingdom and eventually settled in Brixton in February 1991 where he began dealing crack and cocaine.
McGriff came to prominence in the early 1980s when he formed his own crack distributing organization which he called the Supreme Team based in the South Jamaica section of Queens, New York.
Wavering property prices in the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the rise of crack use and dealers in the area, brought a halt to new investment, and the nightlife in the area stagnated in the face of crime; Manhattan Valley earned a reputation as one of the easiest places in the city to score a hit.
They gave them presents and plied them with alcohol and introduced them to crack and heroin.
Carlish was educated at King David Primary School and then King Edward's School, Birmingham where he was a keen amateur dramatist - writing and performing a 'hip-hop opera' in which Carlish 'rapped' about a mystical 'Rock of Crack' (Cocaine) and where at least one contemporary remembers him as energetically outspoken even at a tender age.
Former homeless man and crack addict Lee Stringer was first vendor and then editor and columnist for Street News.
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It follows the life of hip hop producer J-Swift, formerly of The Pharcyde, from homelessness and crack addiction to his mission to win back his life and music career.
Kelley illustrates these facets by referencing the lyrics of Ice Cube, who in "A Bird in the Hand"—a track on 1991's Death Certificate—tells the story of a young man forced to sell crack to survive when the only job he can obtain after graduation is an underpaying one at McDonald's.