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Originally Posted by Drolefille
No you're still wrong.
No you have it backwards. They're lowering the sentence times for crack not raising them for powder cocaine. Or more specifically they're lowering the comparative crack  owder quantity conversions.
No longer would someone with 5 grams of crack face the same punishment as someone with 500 grams of powder cocaine. Now 5 grams of crack will be treated like 90 grams of powder. Still a disparity but far better. |
ok.
Still in the ball park of what I was thinking (still a bit loopy right now)...
Im trying to find the thread that this was discussed in where we discussed the disparity of crack vs coke sentences and how that also translated to racial inequality
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