Normal 

cocaine (Cocaine Hydrochloride) is the typical white powder people snort. This

form is a water soluble salt of the cocaine free base and the HCl. This form also
vaporizes at a temperature very close to the temperature at which it burns, making it
difficult to smoke. 

Crack cocaine: is a cheap yet inefficient method of freeing the base cocaine molecule
from the salt. It uses baking soda to remove the proton from the base. However, this
safe, cheap method does not involve any purification steps, leaving some water and
baking soda (impurity) along with the newly formed "crack" which forms crystals and
floats to the top. So freebase cocaine along with other impurites are what make up
crack cocaine. (a cheaper method of producing freebase (smokable) cocaine that does
not produce a pure product.)

Freebase cocaine: formed by a similar process. However, ammonia is used to remove

the proton and free the cocaine base. Diethyl ether (extremely flammable and volatile) is
used to dissolve and remove the freebase cocaine. This can simply be siphoned off the
top since ethyl ether does not mix with the water/ammonia solution. The Diethyl Ether
evaporates and pure freebase cocaine is left behind. (More expensive materials, more
precise method, pure freebase is the result)

Pure cocaine is produced and has a moist, flaky appearance. Cocaine can easily be
purified by washing it with acetone and evaporating off the solvent, leaving behind only
the desired product. When this is done well during refinement (making cocaine
from coca leaves) purity approaches %100. This cocaine is called "fish scale"
sometimes due to its flaky appearance.

That's a difficult character study- its a somewhat secret subculture. A character who
uses pure cocaine probably would have many facets to their habits/personality that
would be hard to speculate about.. Like habitually soliciting prostitutes and using Viagra
and Cialis.