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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by dismantlethesun on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:15AM (#17714871)
I have heard this and always wondered what exactly is keeping people from doing drugs with lessers sentencing?

For example, if crack-cocaine carries a high sentence, then why not drop the habit in exchange for powdered cocaine?

If the question is price, then this is really more of a system targeting the poor than one that is against any specific minority group.

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by mschuster91 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @10:42AM (#17716349)
> If the question is price, then this is really more of a system targeting the poor than one that is against any specific minority group.

Well, if the majority of poor people are blacks (and Latinos), then it certainly is a racist policy to have vastly different sentencing for the drugs for poor and rich people.

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by moate on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @11:12AM (#17716575)
Crack is substantially cheaper to obtain than powdered cocaine. Crack is just powdered cocaine that's been cooked with other substances, essentially diluting it.

The question is purely price, and it's the system targeting drug users of certain class/ethnic groups more than others. If you look at drug law enforcement in the US, it's substantially more punitive towards poor/minority groups.

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by moate on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:05PM (#17717525)
1- Can't imagine ya'll refute what crack is/the pricing of it since those are just objective facts. So, for anyone who's salty that the system is rigged against poor people/minorities:

Citation A: https://www.vera.org/publications/for-the-record-public-heal...

Citation B: http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war

Citation C: https://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/ACF4F34.pdf

Citation D: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/06/28/the-war-on-...

I can do a the standard English alphabet, the Greek alphabet, simplified Chinese, Japanese kanji and any other alphabets you guys would like me to tack on with sources that state the same thing:

The War On Drugs is a War on Poor People and Minorities.

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