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by nickff
3599 days ago
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Crack has a much more intense, shorter high, and is much more closely associated with negative life outcomes than powder cocaine. Powder cocaine users tend to be much more high functioning than crack users. Many of the laws tough on crack cocaine were brought in during the 80s and 90s when crack was thought (perhaps accurately) to be tearing African American communities apart, and many of the campaigners for the tough laws were African American community leaders. |
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Says who? You?
And even still, couldn't you say that the harsher sentencing guidelines around crack are to blame for that?