Fernando Cassia wrote: > Heh... too true. Depends on skin color and type of drug, too, I guess > a bunch of kinds doing ecstasy on a yatch is not the same as a black > kid smoking crack in a street corner. :)
It's not a matter of guessing: the threshold for being punished for being caught with crack is significantly lower than that for "powder" cocaine. And it's harder to get caught on a yacht. from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/28/crack-powder-sentencing-d_n_662526.html: >Congress addressed a historic wrong on Wednesday afternoon, replacing it >instead with a slightly lesser wrong, when the House voted to reduce the >disparity in the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder >cocaine. > To be charged with a felony, crack users needed to possess only 5 grams of > the drug. To be hit with the same charge, powder cocaine users needed to be > caught with 500 grams. This 100-to-1 disparity has frequently been cited by > drug war opponents as exhibit A to buttress their claim that drug laws are > racist. > Pending President Obama's signature, the new law will reduce that disparity > to 18-to-1. The threshold for crack cocaine in the new law will be 28 grams; > the powder level remains the same.< -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
