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What's wrong with mandatory minimum sentencing?

9/14/07. Dr Alvin Poussaint explains how the pointless disparity in powder cocaine and crack rock sentencing is inherently racist.  
 
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copcorona (2 months ago) Show Hide
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End prohibition now
fireye2012 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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In Oregon growing a plant is the same as 1st degree murder. To equate these two on this level is the mark of a treasonous lot of vile conspirators in the various levels of government. We suffer because of their greed plain and simple. Gotta keep those prison stocks going in the right direction and that is always easy enough...just pass some more laws against human nature....that always works.
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ask yourself this question: How many people are killed or injurred in the sale of powder cocaine and how many people are killed or injurred in the sale of crack cocaine? I believe the disparity of sentencing involves the levels of violence associated with the drugs, not race.
dailybackground (2 years ago) Show Hide
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I think it's more appropriate to prosecute violence as violence, and illegal drug use as drug use, rather than trying to supplant the two in sentencing.
whiteworldreturns2 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Pointless disparity? Crack cocaine users are notoriously violent whilst using the drug and when craving it. Powder cocaine users often hold down powerful jobs and simply use it as an accessory to a lifestyle, very few of them turn into murderers/robbers.
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The big guys who bring in the large amounts get a smaller sentence than the little guys on the street, how can that be right? There is plenty of violence around powder coke, look at Columbia, although that point has already been refuted by dailybackground. All races suffer from mandatory minimums. I could tell u some sad stories of good white kids from good backgrounds...

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