A Mother Reinvents Herself as a Criminal Justice Advocate After Her Twins Go …

A mother reinvents herself as a criminal justice advocate after her twins go …
… to the government in prosecuting another offender. With a crack epidemic raging, Congress had created mandatory minimums for drug cases, with one gram of crack cocaine the equivalent of 100 grams of powder cocaine for the purposes of sentencing. Read more on Washington Post

Priest's Methamphetamine Conviction Has Court System On Alert
A drug problem sometimes compared to the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s because of methamphetamine's destructive effects on the minds and behaviors of users, meth production has been historically isolated to rural western and southern states. Read more on Connecticut Law Tribune

The ten most popular political conspiracy theories (PHOTO GALLERY)
14 percent of voters believe the CIA was instrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s in America's cities. How many of these conspiracies do you subscribe to? Here are a few others that didn't quite make the list: – 13 percent of … Read more on San Francisco Chronicle (blog)