If or no other reason, that book is worth buying because it has a long footnote about the Great Ouija Board Scare (sometime around the end of WWI there was about a year of public uproar over Ouija boards, which were allegedly driving people mad and making them attack the police with the strength of half a dozen men etc. etc. - basically all the same stuff that they said PCP made you do decades later) with primary sources cited. I've never found a bit of information about it on the Internet.

Also worth it for the article about the long term studies that debunked the "crack baby" myth (tl;dr babies that were underweight, premature or otherwise suffering from lack of proper prenatal care were labeled "crack babies" if their mothers were black and had a history of use but long term studies showed no discernible developmental differences between them and other children from similar backgrounds whose mothers hadn't used crack).

All in all it's probably the best book I've ever read on the relationship between drug prohibition, class and race in the USA.

so why did they need a real bag of crack? or was daddy getting his boy a fix?

No idea.

Hey now, be nice. Nobody deserves to be marginalized or treated like a second-class citizen because of a serious crack addiction, not even rich, Yale educated war criminals.