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Source FYI: prior to this, U.S. sentencing guidelines treated 1 gram of crack the same as 100 grams of powder cocaine. So crack users got much longer prison sentences than powder users. The majority of crack users are low-income minorities. Guess who the majority of powder is? I can't believe it has taken this long to realize the racial and socio-economic disparity here. Any thoughts? |
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yeah
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It's certainly an encouraging coda to this thread from last week, since so many of those 1 out of 100 are serving long sentences because of these 'Anti-Drug Act' guidelines.
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addicts need to finance their habit
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people addicted to powder cocaine can afford their habits. and good lawyers, too. |
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I don't think the sentencing laws were written to be biased, only to protect the already crime and drug infested neighborhoods of our inner cities from yet another scourge, crack cocaine. But if they are in fact doing more harm than good than it's probably the correct thing to do.
By the way, what are some other "biased laws" in this awful, unjust country of ours? |
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well i'd say the whole marriage thing is pretty biased
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Long, long overdue. And the irony (and idiocy) of it is if you were really trying to put it in perspective you'd skew it the other way. 100 grams of powder coke has more drugs in it than 100 grams of crack which might have only a little coke and a bunch of baking soda or whatever.
And I'm not sure it's crack that's a scourge, I'd say it's poverty and crack just made/makes it worse. Addicts get desperate, it's pretty universal. Difference is white-collar cokeheads have more options - snort up their kids' college fund, embezzle a bit of money from the boss, maybe even a bit of blackmail. Those options aren't there for the urban crackhead so he/she finds other sources of illicit income, from robbery to prostitution. It doesn't make them worse, it doesn't make crack worse, it just makes them poor. But then along comes the government with its racial bias, and you get laws like this. Anyone know how meth is treated by the legal system, compared to crack? |
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Last month Joe Biden apologized for the bias in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act and called for reform.
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