free-base
- v use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- As cocaine is just one distilled component of the coca leaf, cocaine free-base comes from carrying the refining process one ill-advised step further: the active drug is "freed .
- Instead, says Nussbaum, he insisted the couple share some free-base cocaine before calling for help.
- Nussbaum testified that after his return, when she told him the girl could not be revived, he insisted they free-base cocaine before calling for help.