When crack cocaine possession means 24 years in prison and manslaughter means only 3, you know something is seriously wrong with the U.S. criminal justice system.i think i'd like to mention this article in honor of my purchase of frontline's new album. i also wanna mention frontline cuz i'm 99% positive that i saw Left purchasing some frozen yogurt behind me at michelle's on durant. i wasn't sure it was him at the time cuz i didn't know he had a mohawk.
but in all seriousness, ridiculous is the word that comes to mind when i think about this law. minimum 5 yrs for trying to sell two sugar packets worth of crack, 5 grams. in order to receive the same penalty for selling powdered cocaine, 500 grams. a hundred times more. frickin ridiculous.
Since crack is made by cooking powder cocaine with baking soda or another base when it reaches the street retail level, the 100-to-1 ratio has served to exact harsher punishments on low-level dealers than the kingpins supplying the raw material. According to USSC data, low-level crack sellers are punished 300 times more severely than high-level, international cocaine traffickers on an imprisonment-per-gram basis.
so uhh, it's more important to get to poor crack dealers, because, uhhh, in the bigger scheme, they're the bigger bad guys, bigger than the doods that supply the cocaine.. that sounds right, right?
at least we know whitney houston won't EVER get caught with crack. why you ask?
cuz crack is wack!
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