characteristics of users, pointing out that many heavy crack users can go for days or weeks without using the drug. overdose a typical response among users is to have another hit of the drug; however, the levels of dopamine in the brain take a long time to replenish themselves, and each hit taken in rapid succession leads to progressively less intense highs. nonetheless, a person might binge for 3 or more days without sleep, while inhaling hits from a pipe. use of cocaine in a binge, during which the drug is taken repeatedly and at increasingly high doses, leads to a state of increasing irritability, restlessness, and paranoia. this may result in full-blown paranoid psychosis, in which the individual loses touch with reality and experiences auditory hallucinations. large amounts of crack cocaine (several hundred milligrams or more) intensify the user's high, but may also lead to bizarre, erratic, and violent behavior. large amounts can induce tremors, vertigo, muscle twitches, paranoia, or, with repeated doses, a toxic reaction closely resembling amphetamine poisoning. society and culture synonyms synonyms used to refer to crack cocaine include atari; base; bazooka; beamers; beemers; bebe; bee-bee; berry; bing; bolo; bomb; boulder; boulders; butter; caine; cane; casper; casper the ghost; cavvy; chemical; chewies; cloud; cloud nine; crills; crunch and munch; dip; famous dimes; fan; fish scale; fries; fry; glo; golfball; gravel; grit; hail; hamburger; helper; hubba; ice cube; kangaroo; kibbles and bits; kibbles; krills; lightem; paste; patico; pebbles; pee wee; pony; raw; ready; ready rocks; redi rocks; roca; rock; rooster; rox; roxanne; scud; scotty; scramble; scruples; seven-up; sherm; sherms; sleet; snowballs; stones; teeth; tension; top gun; tweak; ultimate; wash; white cloud; work; yahoo; yale; yay; yayoo; yeah-o; yeyo; yeo; and yuck. drug combinations crack cocaine may be combined with amphetamine ("croak"); tobacco ("coolie"); marijuana ("buddha"; "caviar"; "chronic"; "cocoa puffs"; "fry daddy"; "gimmie"; "gremmie"; "juice"; "primo"; "torpedo"; "turbo"; "woolie"; "woola"); heroin ("moon rock"); and phencyclidine ("clicker"; "p-funk"; "spacebase"). consumption crack smoking ("hitting the pipe"; "puffing"; "beaming up (to scotty)") is commonly performed with utensils such as pipes ("bowl"; "devil's dick"; "glass dick"; "horn"; "uzi"); improvised pipes made from a plastic bottle ("masarati"); water pipes ("bong"; "hubbly-bubbly"); and laboratory pipettes ("demo"). legal status u.s. food and drug administration anti-crack poster cocaine is listed as a schedule i drug in the united nations 1961 single convention on narcotic drugs, making it illegal for non-state-sanctioned production, manufacture, export, import, distribution, trade, use and possession. in most states (except in the united states) crack falls under the same category as cocaine. australia in australia, crack falls under the same category as cocaine, which is listed as a schedule 8 controlled drug, indicating that any substances and preparations for therapeutic use under this category have a high potential for abuse and addiction. it is permitted for some medical use but is otherwise outlawed. canada as a schedule i substance under the controlled drugs and substances act, crack is not differentiated from cocaine and other coca products. however, the court may weigh the socio-economic factors of crack usage in sentencing. as a guideline, schedule i drugs carry a maximum 7-year prison sentence for possession for an indictable offense and up to life imprisonment for trafficking and production. a summary conviction on possession carries a $1000–$2000 fine and/or 6 months to a year imprisonment. united states in the united states, cocaine is a schedule ii drug under the controlled substances act, indicating that it has a high abuse potential but also carries a medicinal purpose. under the controlled substances act, crack and cocaine are considered the same drug. the anti-drug abuse act of 1986 increased penalties for crack cocaine possession and usage. it mandated a mandatory minimum sentence of five years without parole for possession of five grams of crack; to receive the same sentence with powder cocaine one had to have 500 grams. this sentencing disparity was reduced from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1 by the fair sentencing act of 2010. europe in the united kingdom, crack is a class a drug under the misuse of drugs act 1971. in the netherlands it is a list 1 drug of the opium law. political scandals rob ford, the 64th mayor of toronto, was filmed smoking crack while he was in office. marion barry, mayor of washington d.c., was filmed smoking crack in 1990 in a sting operation.