The most popular version in my area is a light bulb with the base removed (done by heating it until the glue melts, and pulling off with pliers), and a hole drilled in the top. If these are unavailable in your area, emergency crack pipes can be made out of damn near anything.

These somewhat standard crack pipes can be bought at some head shops by asking for a 'kit.' They are typically not on display, because unlike bongs and other pot paraphernalia, they cannot be explained as tobacco smoking accessories. If you own one, it should probably never leave your home. These pipes are terrifically fragile, only usable as paraphernalia, and so large they are difficult to hide. The rock is dropped in through the top, the sphere is heated, and the smoke is inhaled, carbureted with air from the vertical tube.

The other, safer kind of crack pipe is essentially a glass sphere with a vertical tube leading in, and a horizontal tube leading out. The rock can be melted against the wool, and the wool can be heated during inhalation to release any chemical it soaks up. Another solution is to wad up steel wool into a ball and stuff it into one end. Do your research, maybe even do a test run with the pipe well away from your lips, as boiling hot liquid down your throat seems a poor way to start any drug experience.

I've heard that crack is fast about turning to smoke, while DMT tends to be liquid for quite a while. You have to be careful with this that the chemicals don't turn to liquid for very long before they evaporate, or they'll flow out the end of the pipe, or worse, into your mouth. To use it, the ' rock' is placed about an inch in from the end opposite your mouth, and heated from below with a lighter. The common, and cheap, crack pipe is simply a five inch long glass tube. Typically drugs consumed in this way are destroyed if the flame touches them - DMT being the exception - so smoking them with a standard pipe wouldn't work. The idea behind the crack pipe is not to burn the material being smoked, but instead to heat it as quickly as possible, letting it sublime into smoke, which is inhaled.

Named for crack cocaine, though they may be used for smoking methamphetamine, DMT, heroin, 2-CT-7 or anything else that comes as (or can be made into) a freebase. A pipe used for the boiling and inhalation of drugs in freebase form.

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