Sentencing Crack

Dec 10 - The US High Court will allow the use of lighter sentences in crack coacine cases. The high court, by a 7-2 vote, overturned a U.S. appeals court ruling that judges can not hand down a lighter punishment simply because they disagree with wide disparities for crack and powder cocaine sentences.

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News & Politics

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• Cocaine
• crack
• powder
• cocaine

[thinkladythink]

I can't believe this shit was considered... of this 80% how many of them sell ice/meth..yea they do..I talked to cops who pick up blacks selling ice and they pass drug test, saying they only sell it not use it,, its designed to kill whites in America, those that don't die have mental or health problems, So I have to wonder if this talk of less time is to ..reward ..them for killing innocent people who befriend them for a little party time, yea their crack dealor are murdering people with ice

[theporksicle]

Well, it depends on how you look at it. During the crack epidemic, when these laws were passed, 5 grams of crack probably cost society 100 times as much as 5 grams of powder cocaine.

Most powder cocaine users were/are wealthy professionals and fewer than 1 in 10 users developed an addiction.

Whereas 4 in 5 crack users developed an addiction and serious crimes usually followed.

[loopholejax]

the laws are blatantly unjust

[ReliableInsider]

And what happens when they *stop* hurting themselves and start living?

[ReliableInsider]

The question is: Why are sane people snorting cocaine or smoking crack in the first place?

Why do people hurt themselves?

[silversalvo]

Prisons in the U.s. are getting out of control if thats not the case already.