The War on Drugs: The smack of firm government
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The Drug War Has Become a Race War
The rich continue to snort cocaine so crack becomes a street drug and that makes it more visible and easy for the police to target. The U.S. sentencing commission in 1997 disgracefully years before anything's done about it by Obama says nearly 90 percent of the offenders convicted in the federal court for crack cocaine distribution african-american which the majority of crack cocaine users are white. If you're black and you're poor they'll send you to jail for 40 years for having a tent as much now britain similar i mean not so not so Not so intense and actually we didn't really had like a major crack problem here but I might remember when manchester was nicknamed gunchester
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