Hunter Biden Talks About Drugs: ‘I Don’t Want to Tell People How to Make Crack Cocaine’

Biden: “Do you know what I mean?”

CALLAGHAN: “Well, because they think cocaine, Scarface, very cool. Crack cocaine, they think The Wire.”

Biden: “Oh, in that sense. Oh, absolutely.”

CALLAGHAN: “You know what I mean? Like, they don’t know how similar the chemical compounds are.”

Biden: “The only difference between crack cocaine and cocaine is sodium bicarbonate and water and heat, literally.”

CALLAGHAN: “That’s it?”

Biden: “That’s it.”

CALLAGHAN: “And those things are pretty much free if you go to, like, a science store.”

Biden: “Isn’t free, you can go to your neighborhood convenience store and just get — anyway, I don’t want to tell people how to make — how to make crack cocaine, but it literally is a [inaudible] cocaine and baking soda.”

CALLAGHAN: “How different is the experience?”

Biden: “It was vastly, vastly different. And, like, for real, I feel really reluctant to kind of have some euphoric discussion. I know you’re not asking me to do that, but to have some euphoric discussion about crack cocaine.”

CALLAGHAN: “I think this might be kind of the opposite here.”

Biden: “OK, no, I — it’s the exact opposite. I’m saying I don’t want to have the experience of some euphoric recall. That’s how powerful crack cocaine is. Does crack cocaine make you act any differently? No. Is it safer than alcohol? Probably. People think of crack as being dirty. It’s the exact opposite. When you make crack, what you’re doing is you’re burning off all the impurities so that it can bind with the sodium bicarbonate, which makes it smokable. That’s all. You know, all of these actors and, you know, people in the past that talked about, they had a problem with cocaine and freebasing, they were smoking crack.”

CALLAGHAN: “[inaudible] on the stove is the same thing.”

Biden: “Not exactly but close to it. But it’s a little bit different, but anyway.”