Great... 20,000 thieves who steal to support their habit will be set free because of their preference to the rock and not the powder. I suppose I agree that it's not fair that the white kids who snort get a better deal than the black kids who smoke.
Pamela Andersons Left Nipple wrote:
Great... 20,000 thieves who steal to support their habit will be set free because of their preference to the rock and not the powder. I suppose I agree that it's not fair that the white kids who snort get a better deal than the black kids who smoke.
If they are stealing to support their habit, then the police should do their job and bust them for burglary.
Assuming people are doing things - stealing, shooting, etc. - because they are doing a certain drug and punishing them for this assumption is a bad way to run a legal system.
At least we won't have to pay to support them in prison anymore.
right. except that you & i will now have to pay to support them in subsidized housing.
le major wrote:
right. except that you & i will now have to pay to support them in subsidized housing.
True, but subsidized housing is cheaper than a prison.
i was wondering how racist this thread could get. impressive, you ignorant assholes.
this was the most discriminatory piece of contemporary legislation. it's a good thing that it's gone.
racist???? no, its reality. Get your liberal a** out of the sand.
Pamela Andersons Left Nipple wrote:
I suppose I agree that it's not fair that the white kids who snort get a better deal than the black kids who smoke.
I agree this is not fair, but why should we adjust the sentences this way instead of increasing the sentences for the white kids who snort coke?
Steve Hanson wrote:
racist???? no, its reality. Get your liberal a** out of the sand.
While a majority of crack users in the United States are white, 94 percent of those sentenced under the incomparably severe penalties for crack cocaine are black or Hispanic. (United States Sentencing Commission, 1999 Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics)
Sweet Jesus! I have been upset with this racist law ever for years!
To think that by taking pure cocaine, and adding some baking soda you can drastically increase the required jail time for possession is absurd.
I'm stoked and I don't even use coke! Yay!
"A man known on the street as "Detroit" smokes crack in a drainage pipe in Los Angeles in 2006."
One of the best photo captions ever.
the price of crack has been skyrocketing in most places. in milwaukee, a rock goes for about $10, but you can often get 3 rocks for $20 or $25, at least until recently. no more.
the price of crack is up by about 30% in just the last few months.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/03/Worldandnation/White_House__US_cocai.shtml
the above article lines up with my experience.
sam w wrote:
the price of crack has been skyrocketing in most places. in milwaukee, a rock goes for about $10, but you can often get 3 rocks for $20 or $25, at least until recently. no more.
the price of crack is up by about 30% in just the last few months.
This decline in the value of the dollar and the increase in the price of rock cocaine is simple to explain. The dollar loses value as the direct result of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury increasing the money supply. Inflation, as the late Milton Friedman explained, is always a monetary phenomenon. The federal government consistently wants to spend more than it can tax and borrow, so Congress turns to the Fed for help in covering the difference. The result is more dollars, both real and electronic – which means the value of every existing dollar goes down, and your buck buys less rock.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faces two basic ongoing choices: raise interest rates to prop up the dollar, but risk pushing the economy into a recession; or lower interest rates to stimulate the economy, but risk further declines in the dollar. This unfortunate dilemma is inherent with a fiat currency, however.
Of course Mr. Bernanke inherited this tightrope act from his predecessor Alan Greenspan. The Federal Reserve did two things to artificially expand the economy during the Greenspan era. First, it relentlessly lowered interest rates whenever growth slowed. Interest rates should be set by the free market, with the availability of savings determining the cost of borrowing money. In a healthy market economy, more savings equals lower interest rates. When savings rates are low, capital dries up and the cost of borrowing increases.
However, when the Fed sets interest rates artificially low, the cost of borrowing becomes cheap. Individuals incur greater amounts of debt, while businesses overextend themselves and grow without real gains in productivity. The bubble bursts quickly once the credit dries up and the bills cannot be paid.
Second, the Fed steadily increased the monetary supply throughout the 1990s by printing money. Recent Fed numbers show double-digit annual increases in the M2 money supply. These new dollars may make Americans feel richer, but the net result of monetary inflation has to be the devaluation of savings and purchasing power.
The precipitous drop in the crack purchasing power of the dollar shows how investors around the globe are very concerned about American deficits and debt. When government policies in a fiat system are the sole measure of a currency’s worth, the currency markets act as a reliable barometer of how those policies are viewed around the world. Politicians often manage to fool voters and the media, but they rarely fool the financial markets over time. When investors lack faith in the U.S. dollar, they really lack faith in the economic policies of the U.S. government.
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if you don't think drug laws are raciest then you know nothing about the drug laws in this country. the fact is black people are more likly to have crack and the jail time for crack compared to other drugs is crazy
Yeah, and it's the same way with performance enhancing drugs. The penalties for steroid abuse are more severe than those for EPO. I'm talking about criminal sentences, not suspensions from competition.
F**K wrote:
if you don't think drug laws are raciest then you know nothing about the drug laws in this country. the fact is black people are more likly to have crack and the jail time for crack compared to other drugs is crazy
I thought it had to do with the rate of violent crime associated with crack as opposed to powder cocaine users. Don't remember where I heard this.
Also, white people get the same sentence for crack use as minorities.
It is illogical to incarcerate people for using drugs.
But it is totally logical to incarcerate people for committing crimes.