Crack Cocaine Cheaper
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Congress justified the sentencing disparity by stressing the serious social harms with which crack cocaine was associated. Included in these social harms were the allegations that crack cocaine is cheaper, it can be smoked, and it induces a briefer but more intense high when compared … Return Doc
UNFAIRNESS IN FEDERAL COCAINE SENTENCING: IS IT TIME TO CRACK …
The indicated method of how powder cocaine becomes crack co-caine is to cook the powder in the form—to cook the powder form with the water and baking soda until it hardens into a rocklike for-mation. This diluted and cheaper form of powder cocaine is then … View This Document
History Of Mental Health
“Experts,” Journalists and Conventional Wisdom 1990s: Crack cocaine is fostering a very affluent criminal underclass that could overwhelm police offers 10% “chronic”, mentally ill, physically disabled, MOST expensive Solving car pollution, bad officers, chronic homelessness would be cheaper … Retrieve Full Source
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Both crack and cocaine are powerful central nervous system stimulants. They are both highly addictive. Because of the rapid high, cheaper price and availability, crack is extremely attractive to lower social economic groups and young users. … Visit Document
: Why Crime Dropped In New York City And The US, 1981- 2007
1 What the paper actually argues is that cheaper drugs (rather than more drugs) led to lower crime, but The price of crack cocaine is the estimated annual price for 0.3 grams of expected pure crack cocaine at the retail … Fetch Full Source
New Jersey Drug Threat Assessment Update
Cocaine prices vary depending on the location and quantity sold; however, low, stable prices indicate there is an abundant supply of cocaine in New Jersey. Powdered and crack cocaine prices are generally cheaper in southern New Jersey … Doc Retrieval
1.3 The Global cocaine Market
cocaine produces a more subtle effect, is more expensive to use, and has become emblematic of economic success in some circles. Demand has emerged in many develop-ing countries, particularly among elites. Crack is cheaper, Crack cocaine became a stigmatized drug in … Retrieve Here
Crack Laws Press Harder On
For crack cocaine than for powdered cocaine or other drugs. The reasoning was that crack, or rock cocaine, a derivative of powdered cocaine, is cheaper, more addictive and more … Read More
REAKONOMICS
But when crack cocaine (cheaper form of cocaine) was invented, the job of distributing it to the masses feels to black street gangs. Crack cocaine set back blacks' progress in … Read Full Source
The Impact Of Institutional Racism On The African American
Person can be arrested for a very small amount a crack cocaine and they will get the same mandatory minimum sentence as a person that is arrested for 100 times the amount of powder cocaine. Crack cocaine is much cheaper than powder cocaine. … Content Retrieval
Resource Information For The Teacher: Fact Sheet On Alcohol
One dose of crack has been known to cause sudden death. Crack is cheaper than cocaine, making it accessible to young or low-income buyers. … View Document
Bash Street Kids
Expanding industry in cheaper, lower quality products. Max Daly takes a look at the results of this year’s UK-wide ? The total number of fatalities where cocaine/crack cocaine was mentioned in UK death certificates rose from five in 1990 to 171 in 2002, … Retrieve Content
Federal Sentencing Policy – Feb 1995
Of the crack markets, the ages and types of persons initially attracted to crack distribution, the increasing social and economic disorganization of the nation's innercities beginning in the 1980s, and the mounting proliferation of more powerful guns, as well as a spread of cheaper powder cocaine … Fetch Doc
(page Number Not For Citation Purposes) – Substance Abuse …
To enhance understanding of crack cocaine dependence and how crack abusers interact with the substance abuse treatment system [2]. Crack is a cheaper and smokable form of cocaine that … Return Document