Factual Shit - Crack vs Cocaine

Federal penalty for trafficking:

5 grams of crack required to trigger a mandatory minimum of 5 years in prison vs.....

500 grams of powered cocaine required to trigger a mandatory minimum of 5 years in prison.

Information source: Time - November 19, 2007

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[Leetist]

...inexpensive moderate proof beer, stereotypically consumed by minorities, yet high proof fancy liquor is always exempted. There are prohibitions on cheap cigars like black and milds, swisher sweets etc., but expensive cigars are once again exempted. Am I the only one who sees a pattern?

[Leetist]

The deep dark reason for this is so that cocaine using inner city minorities will get more prison time than cocaine using Caucasian yuppies. Many aspects of the drug war can be traced to race and class. Ex. Even during alcohol prohibition there was an exemption for wine, the alcoholic beverage of the higher class, which is more potent in alcohol than illegal beer. Even today there are cities that put prohibitions on