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Posted by FoM on August 25, 2001 at 07:59:52 PT Editorial Source: Denver Post 
Urban legends spawned by the War on Drugs persist, contributing to racial disparities in arrests and sentencing - disparities that in Colorado often exceed national averages. One hardy perennial holds that crack cocaine is worse than powder, and only blacks smoke crack.Truth is, powder or crack are the same drug containing the same active ingredient, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reports. Anyone can convert powder into crack. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #2 posted by dddd on August 25, 2001 at 19:04:42 PT |
| ..I think I would use the insanity defense....It would be insane to have anything to do with drugs without having a close relative who is a powerful government official....My uncle Vic was an elected official in Washington State,,,he was also a Grand Potentate Mason...I doubt he'd help me though,even if he were still alive. dddd [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by Robbie on August 25, 2001 at 09:37:25 PT |
| For police, arresting poor blacks on a ghetto street corner is far easier than wresting white druggies out of suburban homes. I definitely agree with that! You start arresting all the whites who are doing drugs, the drug war would be over lickety split. And, IIRC, the nephew(s) of our current glorious commander-in-lawyer, Mr. Asacroft, got no jail time for a cannabis grow-op that would normally have sent them to the federal pen for 2 years! If the antis realized that half of their families would be arrested if the policing were done equally... "Oh! He doesn't neeeeeed to go to prison...he just needs some treatment. Now get back to that ghetto and arrest some more blacks. They don't deserve the treatment my (son/daughter/brother) gets. And I certainly won't sponsor any kind of legislation that gives money to treatment! It's simply that your tax dollars will pay for my (sister/father/neice) to get the top-level treatment, while I deny it to the less well-off on grounds of my own moral turpitude." [ Post Comment ] |
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