The evidence specialists said powdered cocaine was discovered in tiny amounts on some items taken from one of the Mayor's pockets.

Every week, he said, the laboratory produced more than 75 pounds of coca to be refined elsewhere into powdered cocaine.

He and Ms. Moore talk about the possibility of getting some powdered cocaine.

She hung out with older men who introduced her to powdered cocaine.

It dries into powdered cocaine, and the drug may be mixed with baking soda to form crack.

Heroin sales have not been reported, he said, but both crack and powdered cocaine are common.

But blacks accounted for only 27 percent of those convicted of selling powdered cocaine.

A former truck driver named John, 67, said he "kind of rewarded myself" with crack and powdered cocaine on his 50th birthday.

He also said crack cocaine was more associated with violent crime than powdered cocaine.

But someone would have to possess or distribute 500 grams of the more expensive powdered cocaine to get the same sentence.