"On the scale between candy and crack cocaine, it's closer to crack cocaine," Mr. Anderson said of screens.
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"I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine," he said at a news conference.
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A 2010 law intended to address the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine offenders and powder cocaine offenders would be applied retroactively — covering inmates incarcerated for crack cocaine offenses before Aug.
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The bill provides relief to 28,29 people serving harsh and outdated sentences for old crack cocaine charges, which weighed one gram of crack cocaine as equivalent to 210 grams of powder cocaine.
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But that's of no use to many crack cocaine users.
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A drug dealer blew crack cocaine smoke into her face.
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Ms. Irizarry, too, fought addictions, to alcohol and crack cocaine.
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They say crack, cocaine, and marijuana are the most popular.
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It just started going down, like — crack cocaine and weed.
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Right now they are number one for consuming crack cocaine.
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Rivera was found guilty of trafficking crack cocaine in 2001.
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His father was struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine.
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But crack cocaine wasn't introduced into the country until 1984.
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Like several other Democrats, she would eliminate the differences in sentencing for powder versus crack cocaine, as crack cocaine offenses have traditionally garnered longer sentences and been more likely to affect poor and minority defendants.
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Then Barker ran the same tests on the supposed crack cocaine.
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Edward Douglas is serving a life sentence for selling crack cocaine.
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"Video poker is the crack cocaine of gambling," Mr. Curtis said.
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Crime surged, and a crack cocaine epidemic swept across the city.
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Fear of crack cocaine and black men gave us mass incarceration.
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When cops arrived they busted June for possession of crack cocaine.
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The perps allegedly sold crack cocaine, heroin, and marijuana to undercover cops.
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The crack cocaine example is probably the most egregious in recent times.
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Police initially believed the couple was using contaminated heroin or crack cocaine.
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Investigators said the suspects set out to get money for crack cocaine.
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Many of the convicts had been serving time for crack cocaine charges.
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The bill notoriously carried tougher sentences for crack cocaine than powder cocaine.
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The crack cocaine epidemic resulted in militarized policing of mostly minority communities.
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The following year, he was arrested on suspicion of possessing crack cocaine.
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Crack cocaine wasn't even on the average Vermonter's radar until these incidents.
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For instance, powder cocaine and crack cocaine were treated differently in the courts.
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Alcohol came out as the most harmful, followed by heroin and crack cocaine.
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The spokesperson alleges Doak also had suspected crack cocaine and a crack pipe.
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They were both homeless and using crack cocaine at the time, he said.
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Twitter is psychic crack cocaine, and everyone who uses it has Stockholm syndrome.
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They have been called the "crack cocaine of gambling," and Australia is hooked.
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Unfair perceptions about people who use drugs, particularly crack cocaine, powered the debate.
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People inject, snort, or smoke heroin, or even mix heroin with crack cocaine.
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In 2016 these machines — dubbed "the crack cocaine of gambling" — generated $2.5 billion.
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When the police searched him, they found a small amount of crack cocaine.
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A South African crack cocaine addict walks into a clinic, disoriented and anxious.
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" Quoting an unnamed Harvard professor, Kyl called it "the crack cocaine of gambling.
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"I done sold cocaine, sold crack cocaine," he told The Fader in 2016.
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Court documents stated that Wilder, Zampieri, and Hoisington were looking for crack cocaine.
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The crack cocaine crisis was very much ascribed to very urban populations—black communities.
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Hannah* has known since childhood that her mother used crack-cocaine during her pregnancy.
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In May 2013 a video surfaced that appeared to show Ford smoking crack cocaine.
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Mr. Desormeau testified that he quickly recovered crack cocaine from behind Mr. McCoy's waistband.
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In the report, Nguyen wrote that the officers believed the crumb was crack cocaine.
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Lindell is open about his crack cocaine addiction, bringing it up unprompted multiple times.
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His sentence was shortened until 2023 because of the Retroactive Crack Cocaine Guideline Amendment.
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"Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine," he said at a scrum at City Hall.
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It didn't matter to his base that he smoked crack cocaine while in office.
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But it does make retroactive a 2600 law that reduced the crack cocaine disparity.
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During the '80s, crack cocaine, even though plenty of people were dying of heroin.
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The next year, he was arrested in London on suspicion of possessing crack cocaine.
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He will say that Islamist jihadism can have the "addictive power of crack cocaine".
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FYI, cops believe crack cocaine and heroin were being trafficked out of the home.
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Prostitution was a way for me to support my growing addiction to crack cocaine.
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"Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine," Ford told reporters after he stepped off an elevator.
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Police also said they seized cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, and pepper spray during Dabrowski's arrest.
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"Yes I have smoked crack cocaine... probably in one of my drunken stupors," he said.
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Reagan's administration jumped on the opportunity to publicize the crack cocaine epidemic, sensationalizing its emergence.
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Ultimately, their union ended with his addiction to crack cocaine and not-so-secret homosexuality.
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The elder Barry was famously captured on law enforcement video smoking crack cocaine in 1990.
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The morning of their wedding marked 84 days clean from crack cocaine for Ms. Vestal.
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Later that year, she was found with crack cocaine at a rehabilitation center in Florida.
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In 2007, Marvin D. Anthony was sentenced to life in prison for selling crack cocaine.
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Ms. Lane had been addicted to crack cocaine when her son was born on Oct.
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A musician friend introduced her to crack cocaine at a club when she was 20.
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He was like crack cocaine, and producers were buying it to get high on ratings.
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Around '80, '81, '82, that time frame, the crack-cocaine epidemic hit Dallas pretty hard.
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In 1990, three employees were arrested after selling undercover cops crack cocaine at the restaurant.
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Frequently during his arrests, officers have found crack cocaine and a pipe, the police said.
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Mr. Charles was sentenced in 2000 to 35 years in prison for selling crack cocaine.
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By 1987, officials found that 60 percent of Washington arrestees tested positive for crack cocaine.
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Oprah Winfrey, billionaire media mogul, revealed she was addicted to crack cocaine in her 20s.
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She was later jailed when she was found with pills and crack cocaine in her shoe.
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Like several other Democrats, she would eliminate the differences in sentencing for powder versus crack cocaine.
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Levamisole in crack cocaine triggered headlines about "flesh eating" bacteria infections in the UK in 2016.
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Mama's been in a downward spiral ever since her March arrest for possession of crack cocaine.
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She said that at the time she was addicted to crack cocaine; she stole his money.
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Between 212009 and 2110, the median bulk price of crack cocaine fell by around 212015 percent.
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Drug abuse, especially crack cocaine, in the 1980s and 90s was predominantly an African American problem.
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Many turned to cheap heroin and crack cocaine as a livelihood or means of self medication.
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It codified the 28503-to-22019 sentencing disparity for crack cocaine (used mostly by blacks) vs.
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Our mishandling of the crack cocaine epidemic amply proves that drug addiction cannot be punished away.
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Rob Ford, 46, was the combative former mayor of Toronto who confessed to using crack cocaine.
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I know him from being strung out on crack cocaine to being a soldier for ISIS.
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The bill, endorsed by President Trump, shortens sentences for crack cocaine, affecting a few thousand inmates.
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Drugs go through cycles — in the 23s and early '90s, the use of crack cocaine surged.
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Though he had once been addicted to crack cocaine, he had been clean for two years.
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The prosecutor had asked for more than a 180-month sentence for his crack cocaine conviction.
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George Michael once spoke candidly about his history of drug use, including admitting to smoking crack cocaine.
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The bill, which Obama signed into law, reduced the sentencing disparity between powder cocaine and crack cocaine.
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JACKSON: Well, Laura, when you lock people up for crack cocaine -- INGRAHAM: That&aposs not just him.
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The show follows a host of characters whose lives are affected by the newly created crack cocaine.
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In 153, a few years after Reagan announced the war on drugs, crack cocaine hit the streets.
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Prosecutors contended Wilkins paid $20 for crack cocaine and Freeman gave him a piece of gravel instead.
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Ford, who died this past March after a cancer battle, admitted to smoking crack cocaine in 2013.
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I had bad credit, a warrant out for my arrest, and I was hooked on crack cocaine.
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We saw it with crack cocaine in the 1980s, bath salts in 2012, and flakka in 2015.
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But the efforts did not save the terminals, dubbed "the crack cocaine of gambling" by one lawmaker.
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But in Clay's case, the 57 grams of crack cocaine required a mandatory sentence of ten years.
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" On increasing penalties for selling crack cocaine, Biden added: "It was a big mistake that was made.
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Sini said Rodio would initially provide the women with drugs like heroin and crack cocaine for free.
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Something about the picture of him standing with his crack-cocaine dealers added texture to his story.
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In 2013 he acknowledged smoking crack cocaine during one of his "drunken stupors," as he put it.
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Though they eventually dropped the cocaine and crack-cocaine charges, she was ultimately convicted for the marijuana.
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By the 1990's, Cleveland, like many other major cities, was ravaged by the crack cocaine epidemic.
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Decades ago, Avery was convicted three times for possessing tiny amounts of crack cocaine for personal use.
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Donahue told them he and Kulb had purchased and ingested crack cocaine before being robbed at knifepoint.
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Police initially thought they were exposed to crack cocaine or heroin from a batch of contaminated drugs.
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The disparities were even higher for crack cocaine: Nearly 83 percent of the federal defendants were black.
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For example, retroactivity of the Fair Sentencing Act would allow prisoners sentenced for crack cocaine offenses when there was a 100 times greater sentence to seek a sentence reduction under the 2010 law, which lessened the disparity between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine by more than five times.
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On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that 20 crack cocaine users had overdosed during the preceding 10 days.
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Matthew Charles, 51, spent 21 years in prison for selling crack cocaine to an informant in the 1990s.
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He also touched on how much worse it was in the 80s during the city's crack-cocaine epidemic.
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He drew worldwide notoriety in May 2013 when cell phone video appeared to show him smoking crack cocaine.
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Mr. Oliver had about 30 packets of crack cocaine on him when he was found, police officials said.
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Studying crack users Crack cocaine is said to be a low-end incarnation of a rich man's drug.
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While he was mayor, he admitted to smoking crack cocaine, buying illegal drugs and driving after drinking alcohol.
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I picked up his habit of using crack cocaine and taking the heroin to bring the high down.
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In the 1980s, crack cocaine made clear just how addictive cocaine could be, even without physical withdrawal symptoms.
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The provision could alter the sentences of several thousand drug offenders serving lengthy sentences for crack-cocaine offenses.
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The bill, endorsed by President Trump, makes shorter sentences for crack cocaine retroactive for a few thousand inmates.
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Only problem: The new rules didn't apply to federal prisoners convicted for crack cocaine offenses prior to 2010.
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He pleaded guilty in March 2009 to selling crack cocaine and was diverted into a drug-treatment program.
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Crack cocaine and cash were also included, according to the indictment unsealed in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
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Men with nicknames like Droop and Broccoli were said to have dealt in crack cocaine, fentanyl and oxycodone.
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Violent crime peaked in 1991, during the crack-cocaine era, and has dropped by almost half since then.
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Soon she and an acquaintance were robbing houses to get money for drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine.
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They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth.
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In 22010, she was jailed for 20043 months after an addiction to crack cocaine spiraled out of control.
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I stole 22004k, but I spent a lot more of my personal money—my salary—on crack cocaine.
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That included measures that enacted more incarceration, more prisons, and tougher prison sentences for drug offenses, particularly crack cocaine.
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Otte wrote a letter, published on Friday by website Splinter, in which he blamed an addiction to crack cocaine.
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Crack cocaine seems to be linked to domestic violence, marijuana makes workers groggy, no drug is good for motorists.
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DION got his first paying job at 14—which would be admirable, except that he was selling crack cocaine.
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Police say Mama June was in possession of crack cocaine, and that Geno had a needle in his pocket.
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His replacement, Abraham Weintraub, an economist, has said that crack cocaine was introduced to Brazil deliberately by the left.
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The show hearkens back to the "Just Say No" era, chronicling the rise of crack cocaine in the 1980s.
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Others have come onto the scheme after being caught with heroin, crack cocaine, speed, ketamine, magic mushrooms, and 2CB.
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Darnell Brim is getting 10 years in federal prison after ATF agents caught him trying to sell crack cocaine.
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Numerous gang members have been charged with illegally possessing firearms and distributing heroin, methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and other drugs.
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She had gotten addicted to crack cocaine, so it wasn't odd for her to go AWOL for a day.
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It's a far different approach from the "war on drugs" waged during the crack-cocaine crisis of the 1980s.
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And the end of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and '903s was a big contributor as well.
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The law allows for inmates serving time for selling crack cocaine to petition a judge to reduce their sentence.
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When the police arrested him, they found 45 bags of crack cocaine on him, officers claimed in court records.
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Police said authorities initially believed the latest victims might have taken a contaminated batch of heroin or crack cocaine.
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Hidden hands, Mr. Gregory insisted, were behind everything from a crack cocaine epidemic to the terrorist attacks of Sept.
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There was a big spike in foster care cases during the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Her trafficker got her addicted to heroin and plied her with crack cocaine so she could work long hours.
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Five thousand was a drop in the ocean to what I probably spent on crack cocaine in 280 months.
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"I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine," he wrote in an email.
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Charlton's own parents took out a restraining order against him in 2006 in which they say he abused crack cocaine.
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Chrystal Terry made headlines in 2014 when she gave birth in a motel bathtub following an alleged crack cocaine binge.
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We're in these streets, hustling, no one has a job in this motherfucker, but we got guns and crack cocaine.
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Her stepsister had been hooked on crack cocaine and in debt to a dealer but had no money, she said.
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Veronica's mother, Alice, worried about her children growing up in a postindustrial city, where gangs and crack cocaine were rampant.
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Mr. Muhammad had two pipes with crack cocaine residue, the complaint said, and he faces felony assault and other charges.
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Criminal justice reform had spread nationally: Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, effectively reducing penalties for crack cocaine.
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In 2010, Congress unanimously voted to reduce the sentencing disparity between crimes involving crack cocaine and those involving powder cocaine.
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Sini said that Rodio, too, frequently used crack cocaine, and would sometimes drive them to meetings at nearby hotels himself.
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He was convicted at a time when crack cocaine offenses were handled far more harshly than those involving powder cocaine.
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The two Britons taken ill on Saturday were initially thought to have taken an overdose of heroin or crack cocaine.
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At their peak, during the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s, the jails held nearly 23,2300 people every day.
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One of its best-known scoops involved a video of Rob Ford, the late mayor of Toronto, smoking crack cocaine.
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While marijuana does less harm, the smugglers also bring heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth to America, which kill many.
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His tenure as mayor of the country's largest city was marred by revelations about his drinking problems and crack cocaine use.
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"The adverse effects were seen in individuals who had a long lifetime history of, in particular, crack cocaine abuse," Hall says.
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He'd been caught in 2013 holding a few grams of heroin, crack cocaine, and crystal methamphetamine, and had a prior conviction.
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Authorities said they initially believed the couple fell ill after using heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs.
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Over a single day last July, Connecticut saw seven overdoses of crack cocaine laced with fentanyl, including one that was fatal.
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And the school of thought was that we had to do everything we could to dissuade the use of crack cocaine.
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The Macon County DA spokesperson told PEOPLE that Shannon was allegedly in possession of both crack cocaine and a crack pipe.
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I say we've got to take the crack cocaine pipe away and start focusing on real fiscal policy and structural reforms.
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The law allows inmates who are serving time for selling crack cocaine to ask a judge to reduce their prison sentences.
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No. 5: Crack babies and superpredators A thought experiment: It's the 1980s and crack cocaine is ravaging black communities across America.
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Since the 1980s, for instance, devastating and prolonged crack cocaine and methamphetamine epidemics have destroyed and destabilized communities across the country.
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During that time poverty plagued the inner cities and there was a major crack cocaine epidemic in places like New York.
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Rob Ford, a former mayor of Toronto most famous for having been caught on camera smoking crack cocaine, died from cancer.
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I expected that much of the show, which details how the crack-cocaine epidemic began in L.A., to focus on men.
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The upcoming series explores the crack-cocaine epidemic of the early '80s through the eyes of multiple people in Los Angeles.
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In addition, already-incarcerated drug offenders who trafficked in "crack" cocaine would be allowed ex post facto reductions in their sentences.
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Mr. Hicks, 36, faces a drug charge after the police said they found three bags of crack cocaine in his possession.
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Whitaker told police he was high on crack cocaine and blacked out when he killed Alianna, Cleveland station WEWS-TV reports.
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During the day, drug users reportedly host an outdoor market of sorts, selling heroin, crack cocaine, and amphetamines along the sidewalk.
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For instance, it calls for eliminating mandatory minimum sentences and closing sentencing discrepancies for convictions related to powder and crack cocaine.
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Doak was ordered to stay away from June due to their domestic dispute and subsequent arrest for crack cocaine in March.
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I'd already mourned my favorite aunt, who died of AIDS in Tennessee after contracting it when she was using crack cocaine.
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Both went to rehab and relapsed; both suffered drug-induced psychosis — N. from crystal methamphetamine, M. from meth and crack cocaine.
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I found that one caregiver, for instance, had been smoking crack cocaine during her shift (a house cleaner found her pipe).
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They initially see the move as a grand adventure, but slowly discover the extent of their father's addiction to crack cocaine.
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Of course, all of this has gone down after June and Geno were busted back in March for crack cocaine possession.
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Shortly after starting college, he was charged with attempting to sell a small amount of crack cocaine to an undercover informant.
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Just as media hysteria drove draconian responses to crack cocaine in the 1980s, there is a similar frenzy around fentanyl today.
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In the Bronx, Officer Miosotis Familia was shot on a block where guns, crack cocaine and hot tempers seem to pool.
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His most recent venture was "Snowfall," a series on FX about the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
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In 2013, Joseph Lloyd was convicted of possessing small amounts of heroin, crystal meth, and crack cocaine for the purpose trafficking.
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After a search, cops discovered another needle, a white powdery substance -- which June allegedly said was crack cocaine -- and a pipe.
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The suspect had "435 grams of fentanyl as well as a large amount of crack cocaine" in his vehicle, the reporter said.
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At the time Durbin was trying to reduce the penalty for crack cocaine, which was 100 times higher than for powder cocaine.
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TORONTO – The new premier of Ontario is the brother of late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who became famous for smoking crack cocaine.
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He would eliminate sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine, noting that harsher sentences for crack cocaine disproportionately affect defendants of color.
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A boom in the supply of crack cocaine has encouraged city gangsters to expand into towns once dominated by small-time dealers.
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In May of that year, American gossip site Gawker revealed it had been offered a video that showed Ford smoking crack cocaine.
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" Ford made his statement on the video on November 5, 2013: "Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine but … am I an addict?
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"I became a Dallas cop in 1983 because of the crack cocaine epidemic's impact on my neighborhood in Oak Cliff," he wrote.
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Black and Latino people were more likely to use crack cocaine and, therefore, more likely to face harsher sentences and jail time.
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Between 49 and 2015, our team surveyed more than 100 crack cocaine users in the city's Downtown Eastside and Downtown South neighbourhoods.
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The 46-year-old Ford gained international notoriety after a video surfaced in May 2013 that apparently showed him using crack cocaine.
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He entered rehab after finally admitting to smoking crack cocaine and quit a re-election bid after being diagnosed with malignant liposarcoma.
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President George Bush wanted to show America what crack cocaine looked like at his first Oval Office address on Sept 5, 1989.
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A frustrated Nelson threw the couple out, and they took up residence in a seedy neighborhood plagued by crime and crack cocaine.
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When campaigning for the presidency, Obama raised concerns about how African-Americans serve disproportionately severe drug sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine.
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People say the secret recipe white sauce that Halal Guys douses its gyros and combo platters with is akin to crack cocaine.
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Mr. Myrick said his father battled crack cocaine addiction, which helped inspire him to create the committee to confront the heroin problem.
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When even Newt Gingrich shows up to decry the injustice of crack-cocaine laws, one knows that this isn't some liberal delusion.
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After months of being hounded by the media, and a mass exodus amongst his staffers, Ford admitted to having smoked crack cocaine.
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President George Bush wanted to show America what crack cocaine looked like at his first Oval Office address on Sept 226, 22018.
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Michael Solomonov, who owns Zahav, the acclaimed Israeli restaurant in Philadelphia, began treatment for crack-cocaine addiction and alcoholism a decade ago.
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In a 1989 speech at the Cosmopolitan Club in Manhattan, he called for legalizing heroin, crack cocaine and all other illegal drugs.
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Outside city jails, gang members sold crack cocaine at multiple locations in the Bronx and counterfeited large-denomination currency, the indictments charge.
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That year, eight other people were also granted clemency — seven men and one woman, all federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses.
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Hall was convicted on charges to distribute, possess, and manufacture crack cocaine, as well as possession of firearms, per the Justice Department.
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"Lavender seems to be crack cocaine for a certain set of the population," Mr. Kendrick said to Ms. Ralston at the time.
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Mama June's crack cocaine possession case in Alabama is finally moving along ... she and her boyfriend, Geno Doak, both pled not guilty.
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A patchwork of attempts to roll back mass incarceration and harsh sentences for crack cocaine resulted in a reunion after 13 years.
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Among them was Will, whose easy smile and neatly cropped goatee hide his years of dealing crack cocaine, crystal meth and marijuana.
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Heroin is a scourge in east Africa; crack cocaine bedevils west Africa (though it is dwarfed by the abuse of prescription opiates).
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And I think she had held on for so long and eventually you break, and I think crack cocaine filled that break.
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We broke the story ... Mama June was arrested for allegedly having crack cocaine on her after a gas station domestic violence incident.
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Even Joe Biden recently expressed remorse for his tough-on-crime legislation against crack cocaine in the 1980s, which disproportionately affected African-Americans.
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Mr Barksdale and many of his ex-gangster colleagues cut their teeth during the crack-cocaine binge of the late 20123s and 1990s.
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BRITAIN&aposS VIOLENT CRIME WAVE TIED TO SURGE IN CRACK, COCAINE COMING FROM COLOMBIA, REPORT SAYS He met her at London's Regent's University.
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After an arrest for armed robbery and possession of crack cocaine, he has made himself at home in the creaky corridors of Rikers.
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That 2010 law eliminated the massive disparity of treating possession of crack cocaine as 100 times more serious than possession of powdered cocaine.
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Robert Lubrano, 63, has been formally charged with drug possession after he allegedly bought crack cocaine from a 32-year-old suspected dealer.
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Charles' rollercoaster case traces back to the mid-'90s, when he was convicted of distributing crack cocaine and related charges, court records show.
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But his gaffes, like admitting he smoked crack cocaine, ultimately made more headlines than his political career, and his behavior alienated many people.
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An affidavit obtained by CNN shows Eleby told investigators that he and his companions talked about smoking crack cocaine under the highway overpass.
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The first time I smoked crack cocaine was the spring I worked construction for my father on his new subdivision in Moonlight Heights.
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The second time I smoked crack cocaine was the spring I worked construction for my father on his new subdivision in Moonlight Heights.
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Richardson told Albritton that she was going to be charged with possession of a controlled substance, crack cocaine, at an arraignment that morning.
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It would also retroactively apply the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity between sentences for offenses involving powder versus crack cocaine.
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In the late 1980s, the city was hit hard by crack cocaine, setting off a crippling epidemic of drug addiction and violent crime.
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On Monday, Ward, from North Devon, was sentenced to five years and two months for selling crack cocaine and methamphetamine, among other things, .
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"If we had responded to the crack cocaine epidemic as we should have, we wouldn't have had the opioid epidemic," Dr. Satcher said.
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Still, an adjustment to sentencing guidelines helped more than 7,700 crack cocaine offenders have their punishments reduced by an average of 30 months.
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He grew up in Harlem at the height of the crack cocaine era, and quickly racked up a juvenile record for drug possession.
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Season three begins in the summer of 1984, with money pouring in as a result of surging crack cocaine use in the city.
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Season three begins in the summer of 1984, with money pouring in as a result of surging crack cocaine use in the city.
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That legislation reduced the notorious sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses, but it did not apply to those already imprisoned.
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Every day, I want to pull the plug again and leave the "psychic crack-cocaine," as fellow VICE writer Drew Brown calls it, behind.
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In January 210 a police officer named Reginald Graham, who worked with a Philadelphia narcotics unit, claimed to have seen Williams selling crack cocaine.
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The authorities initially suspected the two people got ill after using "possibly heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs," AFP reported.
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The First Step Act would make that measure retroactive, allowing nearly 3,000 offenders imprisoned for crack-cocaine offences to petition judges for early release.
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Lamar Odom, who has battled crack cocaine addiction, recently stated that he found marijuana was helpful in his treatment and recovery for substance abuse.
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When she now tells people that she was exposed to crack-cocaine in the womb, she also tells them about studies showing few effects.
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Rates of violent crime and drug use, particularly during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, really were unusually high, as federal statistics show.
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The ex-mayor's former tenant told police last year that he bought drugs for his landlord around 60 times, mostly crack cocaine and meth.
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But during the brief window between the end of STRESS and the onset of the crack cocaine epidemic, major crimes and murders both declined.
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To date, we only know of one exception to this which was a fentanyl outbreak among crack cocaine users in west Philadelphia last year.
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His mother was sprinkling crack cocaine on cigarettes — she liked the smell of the drug mixing with tobacco — and smoking crack rocks from pipes.
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Thousands serving outdated sentences for crack cocaine charges can come home -- and some wrong-headed components of the 22018 Crime Bill get scaled back.
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After he set up prostitution dates for his victims, he would provide them with heroin or crack cocaine in order to impair their judgment.
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She also began trafficking crack cocaine to pay for drugs, which, along with prostitution and fraud convictions, has landed her seven years in jail.
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Bourdain, who committed suicide last year, had been open about abusing heroin and crack cocaine early in his career, and about eventually getting clean.
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A 2002 report to Congress from the United States Sentencing Commission found that in 1992, 91.4 percent of federal crack cocaine offenders were black.
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In January 2007 a police officer named Reginald Graham, who worked with a Philadelphia narcotics unit, claimed to have seen Williams selling crack cocaine.
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The figurine was made from a similar substance to that which O'Leary had identified as crack cocaine in two cases, according to the report.
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As we reported ... the couple was arrested for crack cocaine possession back in March, and Geno was also hit with a domestic violence charge.
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Detective Desormeau testified that he stopped the man outside the restaurant, searched him and found a bag of crack cocaine tucked behind his waistband.
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Then came crack cocaine, crime and the Zero Tolerance policing strategy that was supposed to help communities like Baltimore, but only made things worse.
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A 23 report to Congress from the United States Sentencing Commission found that in 1992, 91.4 percent of federal crack cocaine offenders were black.
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British betting companies are also struggling with the government's clampdown on high-speed slot machines, which critics have called the "crack cocaine" of gambling.
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Hechinger also shared the story of Matthew Charles, who was released after serving 21 years of his 35-year sentence for selling crack cocaine.
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Back in 22019, Congress reduced sentences for inmates who were punished under a law that treated crack cocaine far more severely than powder cocaine.
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When he was a child, Jenkins's mother became consumed by crack cocaine, and he spent much of his youth in varying degrees of isolation.
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Rates of violent crime and drug use, particularly during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, really were unusually high, as federal statistics show.
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Doug Ford -- brother of the late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who admitted to smoking crack cocaine while in office -- is the next premier of Ontario.
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There, officers found in excess of 28 grams of heroin, nearly 12 grams of cocaine, about 15 grams of crack cocaine and three Suboxone strips.
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Officials said 20 kilos of marijuana, 10 kilos of cocaine, 1,800 doses of crack-cocaine known as "paco," and 400,000 Argentine pesos ($14,819) were seized.
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"[Faison, Martinez, and Porter] were friends and Harlem crack cocaine dealers who operated in the 1980s," Ron Chepesiuk, who authored Gangsters of Harlem, told VICE.
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The sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine resulted in longer sentences for crack cocaine offenses, 80 percent of which were applied to African Americans.
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Congress, for instance, massively increased penalties against crack cocaine in 243 in response to concerns about a crack epidemic and its potential link to crime.
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She and her boyfriend Geno were busted in Alabama for crack cocaine possession, and she's since been spotted several times hitting the slots in casinos.
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It was the tail end of an era when the crack cocaine trade drove violence across the city and left many children in broken homes.
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According to the police report, the officers had caught Ben with packets of heroin in one hand and packets of crack cocaine in his pocket.
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Ford, 53, is the brother of the late mayor of Toronto Rob Ford, who made headlines in 2013 when he admitted to smoking crack cocaine.
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You'll recall ... the couple was busted for possession of crack cocaine and paraphernalia -- including a needle and a pipe -- while at an Alabama gas station.
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Meachum told me that she'd been trying to overcome an addiction to crack cocaine, and that she had P.T.S.D. as a result of domestic violence.
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His 25 years as an assistant US attorney there started in the early 1990s as violent crime rates, tied to a crack cocaine epidemic, peaked.
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We spoke to a man serving a life sentence for selling crack cocaine that could be reduced to less time than he has already served.
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In another strange parallel, the crack cocaine epidemic—which leveled the black working class—was reproduced in the white working class as the opioid epidemic.
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As crack cocaine in its time preyed disproportionately on blacks, opioid deaths fixated (until only recently) on whites, each cohort exceedingly vulnerable in its time.
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Take his 1989 reaction to President George H.W. Bush's special White House address calling for an intensification of the law enforcement assault on crack cocaine.
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It would end the federal sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine — a disparity created by legislation sponsored by Mr. Biden, who has since apologized.
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It's hard to fathom the attraction, but apparently once you've had your first whiff of him, Mikhail is as addictive and dangerous as crack cocaine.
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In 1992, though, more than 90 percent of those sentenced under the harsh crack cocaine laws that were passed in the late '80s were black.
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Dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling, campaigners argue that the machines enable players to lose money too quickly, leading to addiction and wider social problems.
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Some reform proponents believe the best they can expect is that Congress will grant a very narrow reprieve for one group of crack cocaine offenders.
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In recent decades alone, we have seen the nation shift its focus from crack cocaine, to MDMA, to crystal meth, to Fentanyl, and so on.
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I was handcuffed and detained on suspicion that my girlfriend and I were using crack cocaine, when in fact we were only rounding third base.
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Last December, in Northfield, Vermont, three people poured gasoline over a young couple and lit them on fire in an attempt to obtain crack cocaine.
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The argument could surely be made that this shouldn't ruffle anyone's feathers, that the brand's name is a cheeky, ignorant joke by a well-meaning but perhaps slightly out-of-touch entrepreneur who wants to get the point across that her toffee crackers are so good that their appeal to consumers is comparable to that of crack cocaine to… people who do crack cocaine.
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In the middle of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, President George H.W. Bush named drug hardliner Bill Bennett to head the agency.
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He also received life imprisonment for killing his wife, 42-year-old Judith Crawford during an argument that same day over Tibbetts&apos crack cocaine habit.
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He admitted to the publication that he was smoking crack cocaine at the time of his 2008 arrest, in which he was charged with drug possession.
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He also believed the Moon landings were faked, as were the official accounts of the crack cocaine epidemic and the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001.
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Shannon was arrested last Wednesday for alleged possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office confirmed to PEOPLE.
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The former NBA star, who has battled a crack cocaine addiction, is investing in the marijuana business, he revealed in a new interview with The Blast.
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Of course, Ye is also the guy who blamed Ronald Reagan for pumping the black community with crack cocaine to purposely destroy the Black Power movement.
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This outbreak was attributable to a single point source outbreak among opioid naïve crack-cocaine users that to our knowledge has only occurred this one time.
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Baltzley says crack, cocaine and alcohol masked the lingering effects of unresolved childhood trauma and provided a short-term salve for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
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Only recently has Biden begun to step back from parts of the law, like the draconian three-strikes rule and the racist crack-cocaine sentencing disparity.
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Check it out ... Mama June has become a shell of herself since she got arrested for possession of crack cocaine in March with boyfriend Geno Doak.
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The charges against Crystal are serious: Federal prosecutors originally attributed 1000 kilograms of marijuana, 813 kilos of cocaine, and five grams of crack cocaine to her.
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The pair, who are being treated at Salisbury District Hospital, were initially believed to have taken heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch, police said.
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He is going to be charged with a felony for possessing that amount of crack cocaine, and he's likely going to be convicted of that felony.
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In 2010, a bipartisan group of lawmakers passed the Fair Sentencing Act to reduce the vast sentencing disparity for possession of crack cocaine versus powder cocaine.
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It seems to me like it's not getting the kind of all-consuming coverage and political attention that the crack cocaine and HIV/AIDS crises drew.
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A former Odyssey House client who has battled addictions to heroin and crack cocaine, he said he often feels like a father toward others in recovery.
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The charge relates to the bust at an Alabama gas station, in which cops say she was in possession of crack cocaine and a glass pipe.
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"We're seeing a lot of longtime addicts who used crack cocaine switch to meth," said Branden Combs, a Portland officer assigned to the street crimes unit.
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" [Rapper Cardi B in a viral Instagram post addressing the partial government shutdown] What happened when Illinois legalized machines known as "the crack cocaine of gambling.
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Damson Idris stars as Franklin Saint, a sharply intelligent drug dealer in Los Angeles in the mid-20183s, at the dawn of the crack cocaine epidemic.
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Willie Allen Lynch was accused in 220 of selling $22014 worth of crack cocaine, after the Pinellas facial recognition system suggested him as a likely match.
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Winfrey, a wellness investor and the CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network, revealed her addiction to crack cocaine while she was an anchorwoman in the 1970s.
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It was during the crack-cocaine epidemic, and that year there were more than sixteen hundred murders in the city, almost five times the number today.
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Prentis Pritchett was arrested on Monday after the police obtained a search warrant and found heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and a handgun magazine containing six rounds.
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And how do you then get people to use them since they're, sort of, on the crack cocaine of Facebook and Twitter and stuff like that.
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" Another explosive comment in the film comes from Roger McNamee, one of the site's earliest investors, who says that extreme content is Facebook's money-making "crack-cocaine.
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The man and woman were hospitalized Saturday at Salisbury District Hospital, where authorities initially believed they might have taken a contaminated batch of heroin or crack cocaine.
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"The danger in a moral panic is that we see this overreaction that leads to a replay of the mistakes of the crack cocaine crisis," Beletsky said.
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But then he looked at drug use and he found much to nobody's surprise that if you smoke crack cocaine, you go back to jail more frequently.
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The zero-tolerance approach, a response to fears about crack cocaine, helped drive down crime rates but also fueled a dramatic increase in the American prison population.
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No one wants to sell a bunch of heroin or crack cocaine in a place and never be able to leave, you know what I am saying?
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In addition to addressing mental health issues for the incarcerated, he wants to tackle sentencing disparities for crack cocaine, an issue which he said "really bothers" him.
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In 26, when she was 533, she was stripped of her voting rights after being convicted of selling crack cocaine and sent to jail for a year.
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Lindell told The Daily Beast that he first met Trump in August 2015 and shared with the then-candidate that he was a recovering crack cocaine addict.
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He considered for a moment, eyes closed, then eyes opened, gauging, I suppose, the ratio of crack cocaine to baking powder, and then he offered an appraisal.
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First came the inquest into the violent death of Mario Perivoitos, mauled by Major, his pet Staffordshire bull terrier, who had ingested a stash of crack cocaine.
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During his tumultuous 2010-2014 tenure as mayor of Canada's most populous city, Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine, buying illegal drugs and driving after drinking alcohol.
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While the crack cocaine epidemic, for instance, produced a response mostly through the criminal justice system, the opioid epidemic has led mostly to a public health response.
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Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat, which was approved earlier in the week by voice vote, broadened the provision to expand its reach to crack cocaine as well.
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But, he later became addicted to crack cocaine ... and his family brought him on the A&E show, "Intervention," in an effort to get him cleaned up.
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As we first showed you ... Mama looks like a shell of herself since she got busted for crack cocaine possession back in March with boyfriend Geno Doak.
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What happened: On May 16, 2013, Gawker and the Toronto Star reported that then-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was filmed smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine.
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In the 2628s, for example, policymakers responded to the crack cocaine epidemic by launching the "war on drugs" and creating mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug offenders.
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Gayden thinks the episode changed something in him, however, and it was around this time that she suspects one of Pixley's brothers introduced him to crack cocaine.
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There were 22016,262 federal marijuana prosecutions in 27, fewer than for any common drug except crack cocaine, and a whopping 62 percent of those involved Hispanic defendants.
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There were 3,71.83 federal marijuana prosecutions in 2016, fewer than for any common drug except crack cocaine, and a whopping 77 percent of those involved Hispanic defendants.
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In the middle of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, President George H.W. Bush named anti-drug hardliner Bill Bennett to head the agency.
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She indulged on and off for the next 15 years, at times stealing from her parents and pawning her possessions to help pay for heroin or crack cocaine.
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Mama June was feeling lucky after her arrest for crack cocaine earlier this week ... so she rode that wave by rolling into a casino and hitting the slots.
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Powder cocaine is used mostly by wealthier, white people and crack cocaine, which is sold on the streets for very little money, was used in poorer Black communities.
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Wershe Jr. dealt crack cocaine in order to locate drug houses for the FBI, and eventually provided information that led to the downfall of the Currys' criminal organization.
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Tragically, it was the beginning of a downward spiral that would lead to a number of arrests for DUI and drug possession (crack cocaine and cannabis) in London.
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During the 1980s, for instance, the federal penalties for crack cocaine were far more stringent than those for powder cocaine, which resulted in lengthier terms for African-Americans.
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Officials who were in Richmond during Kaine's mayoral tenure believe the community, ravaged by the crack-cocaine epidemic and an escalating murder rate, had to take dramatic steps.
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In 2014, for example, a federal court of appeals in New York considered testimony from an FBI agent who had used Cellebrite technology in a crack cocaine case.
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In November 2001, when he was 17, Thomas was arrested for selling $20 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer, and was convicted and given probation.
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He pops up in a section on the rise off mass incarceration during the 1980s that's tied to crack cocaine and the racial gap in arrests and sentencing.
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In those years, drug offenses involving methamphetamine grew 2900 percent, compared with marijuana, which fell 220006 percent; powder cocaine fell 2202 percent; and crack cocaine fell 2628 percent.
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An additional 1,691 people will receive reduced sentences due to the law's retroactive application of a 2010 law that reduces sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder cocaine.
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" Mr. Ford, a conservative populist, was caught on video smoking crack cocaine in 2013 and later said the drug use happened "probably in one of my drunken stupors.
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Dos Santos was arrested on Sunday with 302,000 reais ($92,600) in cash, 20 kilos of crack cocaine, two handguns, jewelry, watches and 68 cellphones, a police statement said.
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Compare this to a previous anti-drug document: the Office of National Drug Control Policy's first strategy blueprint, which was released in 1989 during the crack cocaine epidemic.
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Terri Lyn was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression, and she battled crack cocaine addiction for years—she had been free of it for more than a year.
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By comparison, federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine trafficking — mostly street-level dealers who sold less than an ounce — serve on average just over 12 years in prison.
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Nevertheless, no one has ever described his temperament as a match for the likes of the former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, a deeply troubled, crack-cocaine user.
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The Office of National Drug Control Policy was created by Congress during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1988 as part of the war on drugs.
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He went on to direct more than 10 films and TV series, including the recent FX crime drama "Snowfall," about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
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The primary target of the killings was Wendy Chaney, who sold drugs for the gang — including cocaine hydrochloride, crack cocaine and heroin — in Franklin County, Pa., prosecutors said.
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Growing up in Crown Heights, it was not uncommon to hear gunshots going off every single day of the week during the height of the crack-cocaine epidemic.
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In March, the Justice Department arrested five people in California accused of using the site as well as Dream Market to sell methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine.
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She also hoped to spare Ms. Darlington from the seedier aspects of her crack cocaine addiction, often rallying her siblings to pool their money on their mother's behalf.
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" In West Baltimore he talks wristwatches with a drug dealer and ends up with a rock of crack cocaine tinged with the sharp yellow "of a newborn Parmesan.
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Paul Van Hoesen, president of Empower Health USA As a nurse specializing in AIDS in the '90s, I worked with young women addicted to crack cocaine in Newark.
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This is the fourth time we've seen Mama in a casino since her March arrest for crack cocaine ... and the first time her gambling itch struck in Carolina.
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The machines are dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling by campaigners who argue that they let players lose money too quickly, leading to addiction and wider social problems.
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He was a de facto deputy to his late brother, Mayor Rob Ford, who became notorious in 2013 when he admitted to smoking crack cocaine while in office.
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Mama June is finally facing the judge in her crack cocaine possession case in Alabama, and she made one hell of an entrance with her bf, Geno Doak.
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He co-sponsored the Fair Sentencing Act of 22, which raised the threshold for a five-year mandatory minimum for possession of crack cocaine from 23 grams to 28.
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The Toronto Star would follow up later that night, with its own account of having watched Ford smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine in a dimly lit house.
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Critics of the machines, often dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling, had also written to Prime Minister Theresa May urging the government to cut the stake to 453 pounds.
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Today's policies took shape mainly in the mid-1980s, when an epidemic of crack cocaine use proved a perfect issue around which President Ronald Reagan could rally "middle America".
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Jackson, 70, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter for its latest cover story, where he got candid about struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Much of the violence unfolded during the nation's crack cocaine epidemic when at least two other serial killers prowled the part of the city then known as South Central.
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The change comes after continued controversy, with the name's reported allusion to the addictive nature of crack cocaine, which decimated mostly African-American communities in the 1980s and '90s.
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Nearly three years after a reported video featuring former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine made him a household name in America, the footage has finally been released.
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In the early 214s, London's kingpins spotted an opportunity to cut out these dealers by recruiting their own couriers to sell crack cocaine and heroin directly to provincial consumers.
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They agreed but later got into an argument when McCrary accused Claytor of smoking the last of their supply of crack cocaine, after which McCrary shot her, Lowry testified.
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A handyman in Oviedo, Florida, wound up spending a few months in lock-up after police mistook some drywall residue in his car for crack cocaine, WFTV 9 reports.
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When the country stigmatized crack cocaine users in the 1980s, it led to a massively punitive crackdown on drugs that dealt with addiction as a crime, not an illness.
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He had grown up in poverty, in a family with a history of mental illness, which led him to self-medicate—first with heroin, and later with crack cocaine.
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Ms Davis says relatively harmless local weed-dealers have been replaced by county-lines operations flogging £10 ($13) bags of crack cocaine, with free samples of heroin thrown in.
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Sports gambling in real time on cell phones and computers was highlighted as an example of the "crack cocaine" for hooking college students, teens and kids into addicted gambling.
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" She also faults union leaders who tried to "line their own pockets" and notes that "crack cocaine, the cornerstone of the new economy, was a difficult commodity to tax.
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Yet we continue serving, as we did through the loss of General Motors, through the crack cocaine epidemic and, most recently, through the mass lead poisoning of Flint citizens.
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Unemployment, poor education and health care, dilapidated housing, and the spread of crack cocaine left many desperately scrambling into the underworld, where crime wreaked havoc on any and all.
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While crack cocaine addiction was centered in cities, opioid and meth addiction are ravaging small communities like those in Dearborn County, where 220.09 percent of the population is white.
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On the club's slow days, he supplemented his income by parking the cart outside a nearby housing complex and feeding residents who earned their living by selling crack cocaine.
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A 2017 Canadian trial published in the journal "Addictive Behaviors: concluded, "[S]elf-reported intentional use of cannabis ... was associated with subsequent periods of reduced use of crack [cocaine].
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The federal government followed suit, establishing mandatory sentences for drug offenses (with a notorious 100 to 1 disparity between powder and crack cocaine) and enacting the 1994 crime bill.
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As more officers arrive, one tells them he saw Clements with a steak knife and a "white powdery substance" on her hand, which he assumes to be crack cocaine.
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He discussed wanting to switch to selling crack cocaine — "I was scared, bro," he told another gang member — but said the heroin was too profitable, according to the indictment.
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Finally (and I do mean finally), Marlboro Gold (formerly Lights), the crack cocaine of tobacco products, containing all sorts of cunning chemicals and a somewhat insulting whisper of sugar.
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It was initially thought the man and woman had possibly used crack cocaine or heroin from a batch of contaminated drugs, police said, adding that further testing was ongoing.
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Some critics dismissed her "Just Say No" efforts as simplistic but she became America's most visible anti-drug crusader at a time when the crack cocaine epidemic was raging.
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According to a 2010 study by legendary neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt, alcohol abuse is more harmful to the user and society than every other major drug including heroin and crack cocaine.
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"I know conventionally a vice is something like pornography addiction or smoking crack cocaine with strangers in hotel rooms — both of which vices I've had in the past," Moby said.
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Notably, Singleton's latest project, the FX series "Snowfall," deals with many of the same themes that "Boyz" explored nearly three decades ago, chronicling the onset of the crack cocaine epidemic.
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Alcohol's position at the top is partly the result of its widespread use, which causes greater harms to others (crack cocaine is considered the most harmful drug for the user).
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Now, Lynch says she can see the consequences of those policies, particularly the crack cocaine disparity laws, in overcrowded prisons and the mistrust communities have in the criminal justice system.
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The 22015 kilos of crack cocaine Jones was convicted of conspiring to traffic would have yielded a maximum sentence of just around 217 years' imprisonment based on federal sentencing guidelines.
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Back in 1988, Biden co-sponsored the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which created new mandatory-minimum sentences for drug offenders and pushed harder punishments for crack cocaine over powder cocaine.
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He has acknowledged in court that he had been a part of the Bloods gang and had been arrested for possession of marijuana and crack cocaine, among other minor offenses.
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But crack cocaine dealers from the Melrose and Jackson housing projects a block west coveted Mr. Perez's crew's more lucrative turf and sometimes tried to steal their drugs or money.
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But a confluence of factors worked against him, including the particularly hard-nosed judge who sentenced him and the zero-tolerance ethos of the time against users of crack cocaine.
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In 22019, Congress created harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes in the wake of the overdose death of basketball star Len Bias and a media frenzy around crack cocaine.
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Leah, 21Length of relationship: 4 yearsDrugs involved: fentanyl, OxyContin, crack, cocaine My boyfriend and I have been together four years, and we've been living together for just over two months.
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This novel is a rich celebration of mothers who have, in the age of crack cocaine, been forced to raise their own grandchildren, having lost their daughters to the epidemic.
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Because crack cocaine impacted black neighborhoods so heavily in the 1980s, addressing that disparity was seen as a necessary way to begin rectifying racial imbalance in the criminal justice system.
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Jonathan Green takes a head-on approach in "Sex Money Murder," his detailed account of a federal takedown of a Bronx drug-trafficking crew in the heyday of crack cocaine.
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Today the city's jails hold about 7,000 people every day — about a third of the population when it reached its peak during the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.
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Within months, Mr. Brown, who had been bouncing between shelters, had a one-bedroom apartment in Somerdale, N.J., 210 miles from where his father first introduced him to crack cocaine.
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He also used the surpluses to set aside billions for schools, transit, low- and middle-income housing, and the hiring of police officers in response to the crack cocaine epidemic.
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In a moving video campaign that was shared last Monday, the L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson revealed that his adult son Doug is homeless and addicted to crack cocaine.
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Ford's sincerity in getting sober was questioned quite heavily in the media after he finally admitted to smoking crack cocaine and having substance abuse issues after months of lying about it.
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The league began in 1989 after NYPD Officer Michael Buczek was gunned down by drug dealers while on patrol in Washington Heights during the height of the crack cocaine drug epidemic.
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And it was the crack cocaine epidemic of the '20163s that led Reagan to pass all sorts of harsh anti-drug policies, such as the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.
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Many of those whose punishments he's reduced were incarcerated for crimes involving crack cocaine, which came with mandatory sentences that were longer than those for the powdered version of the drug.
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In 1986, the New York Times reported that 500,000 people in the United States were addicted to heroin, but the popularity of a different drug — crack cocaine — was on the rise.
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Months later, in April 2018, Odom revealed that he had, indeed, been facing another fight with his addiction to crack-cocaine but that he found a surprising source of relief: marijuana.
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Back in the '80s and '90s, it was sensational media stories of people who used crack cocaine that led to the worst drug war policies that we're still stuck with today.
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Bertha Madras, formerly a director in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and currently a professor of psychobiology at Harvard Medical School, likened illicit fentanyl to crack cocaine.
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Note: Crack cocaine offenders have decreased by more than half since 2012, and nearly all of them (97.5%) were American citizens, the highest percentage of citizen offenders for drug trafficking offenses.
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New Yorkers remember the worst photo opportunity ever, back in 1986, when he and former Senator Al D'Amato, posed "undercover" to show how us easy it was to buy crack cocaine.
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Matthew Charles was one of the first people released from prison as a result of the First Step Act's provisions retroactively applying a 2009 law shortening sentences for crack cocaine offenses.
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They fault the bill for pushing more black people into jail as a result of increased sentences for selling crack cocaine, and mandating longer sentences for repeat offenders and violent crime.
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Among the issues that arose in that decade was how to respond to the fact that an epidemic of crack cocaine abuse was resulting in thousands of babies being born addicted.
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Richmond asked about the difference in the way the government responded to crack cocaine in past decades, imposing harsh mandatory minimums, and the current epidemic with opioid abuse in this country.
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Many drug-induced homicide laws date to the 1980s, however, when states and the federal government used them as part of the war on drugs approach to the crack cocaine epidemic.
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But inmate records show that Jones used crack cocaine every week in the year before he was arrested and previous drug treatment programs he's tried just didn't work, USA Today reported.
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Biden expressed regret for his past support for a crime bill that imposed stronger sentences for possession of crack cocaine, a policy that disproportionately harmed African-American men (The Associated Press).
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That claim, if true, would have given the police justification to stop the man, who was discovered to be carrying 153 glassine envelopes of heroin and eight bags of crack cocaine.
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For example, in 1986, before the enactment of federal mandatory minimum sentencing for crack cocaine offenses, the average federal drug sentence for African Americans was 11 percent higher than for whites.
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Over a century after Ella Henderson's overdose, American cities suffered from a crack-cocaine epidemic that, as it waned, gave way to our current — and decidedly rural — heroin and fentanyl problem.
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Officer Familia, 22015, who was known for a no-nonsense demeanor in her 2364 years in the Police Department, grew up in Washington Heights in Manhattan amid the crack cocaine epidemic.
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In the 1990s, an internal investigation found that he had violated several police protocols, including having sex in his patrol car while in uniform with a prostitute who used crack cocaine.
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It was also surprising to learn that he and Senator Richard J. Durbin, a Democrat, both pushed for passage of the Fair Sentencing Act, which softened penalties for crack cocaine possession.
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The law enforcement approach to the crack-cocaine scourge of the late 2000s filled jails and prisons, expanded government and did little to address the social issues driving that addiction crisis.
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As we've reported ... Mama's family has been concerned about her relationship with Doak and what very much seems to be a severe crack cocaine addiction, and attempted to stage an intervention.
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In 1995, he was charged with theft by swindle and possession of half a gram of crack cocaine in the Minneapolis area, according to a statement from prosecutors in Hennepin County.
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This was especially noticeable because the Obama administration had been pushing for policies to reduce racial disparities in drug sentencing — such as the disparity between sentences for crack cocaine and powder cocaine.
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The parents of the suspect in the death and dismemberment of a Seattle-area mom said in petition for a restraining order against him that he had abused crack cocaine and alcohol.
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The 51-year-old filmmaker recently experienced a career renaissance as the creator of the television series "Snowfall," which documents the rise of crack cocaine in Los Angeles during the early 1980s.
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In 2007, she co-sponsored a bill to eliminate the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for first-time possession of crack cocaine and increase funding for drug treatment programs for incarcerated people.
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A wide array of theories have been proposed: the eroding appeal of crack cocaine, mass incarceration actually working as intended, legalisation of abortion, less lead poisoning of children and the improving economy.
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She bounced back from prostitution and crack addictionTyka battled an addiction to crack cocaine and prostituted herself to support her children, according to the September 23, 2003, issue of The National Enquirer.
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Initially, it was thought they had overdosed on contaminated heroin or crack cocaine but by Monday there were concerns over their symptoms and samples were sent to the Porton Down military laboratory.
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What would have happened if a young black or brown man carrying crack cocaine had stumbled into a police station during that era and asked police to help him overcome his addiction?
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TMZ Sports broke the story ... Bosh's mother, Frieda, is listed as a suspect in an alleged crack cocaine and heroin trafficking operation based out of the home Chris owns in DeSoto, Texas.
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In 27.2, she co-sponsored a bill to eliminate the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for first-time possession of crack cocaine and increase funding for drug treatment programs for incarcerated people.
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First, it doesn't entirely control for the availability of these drugs, so it's likely heroin and crack cocaine in particular would be ranked higher if they were as readily available as alcohol.
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The First Step Act would retroactively apply the 323 Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity between powder and crack cocaine-related offenses, aiding around 2,600 prisoners, according to that CBO report.
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Someone convicted in federal court of possession of five grams of crack cocaine received a minimum mandatory sentence of five years in prison, compared to less than a year for powder cocaine.
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Sources close to June tell TMZ ... Mama's got deal-breaking issues for WE tv -- her crack cocaine arrest, her refusal to get help, her boyfriend, Geno and her off-the-rails conduct.
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Mr. Chamberlain, who had battled addiction to crack cocaine, lived on the ground floor of a faded housing project in a derelict corner of this otherwise prosperous city in New York's suburbs.
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Crack cocaine was disproportionately prevalent in African-American neighborhoods, while powder cocaine was favored by more affluent white users, leading to a sentencing imbalance that cut along lines of race and class.
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The murder rate last year was far below the levels of 30 to 40 years ago, when violent crime, fueled partly by gang violence during the crack cocaine epidemic, reached a peak.
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This is similar to what America saw as the crack cocaine epidemic fueled illicit drug markets, although that previous crisis contributed to a much higher murder rate than what we see today.
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Prosecutors say Franklin stalked the streets of South Los Angeles, singling out prostitutes and drug addicts in a crime spree beginning at the height of a crack cocaine epidemic in the area.
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The average sentence for money laundering (median amount: $212,22016) was 255 months, whereas the average sentence for trafficking crack cocaine — with a typical volume between 26 and 225 grams — was 103 months.
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Sanders did, in 1995, suggest that penalties for powder cocaine should be harsher to match penalties for crack cocaine, and boasted about supporting some "tough" laws, particularly programs funding police, in 20173.
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Mr. Ford himself sat on Toronto's City Council for one term during the tumultuous time when his brother, Rob, who admitted to using crack cocaine and going on drinking binges, was mayor.
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Beginning in the late 1970s and stretching well into the 80s, crack cocaine took South LA by storm, he says, leading to a spike in drug-related crime, drive-by shootings, and murders.
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Riggs-Hopkins's attention quickly shifted from the firearm to what she described in her report as "a rock-like substance" on the floor of his car, which she identified initially as crack cocaine.
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The crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s fueled mass incarceration because many white people (who made the laws) saw addicts — largely African-Americans from city neighborhoods — as criminals to be feared.
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Since the bakery's opening over 10 years ago, the Crack Pie has been a foodie's favorite — however, its moniker has sparked controversy for seemingly making light of the seriousness of crack cocaine addiction.
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The Case The Jones family were just four of more than 100 black residents of Terrell, Texas, rounded up in a drug sweep aimed at crack cocaine users, dealers, and suppliers in 1997.
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Then crack cocaine knocked marijuana from the headlines, creating a new demon drug and marijuana goes back to seeming pretty harmless, even benevolent because you see people using it to help with AIDS.
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Possession of five grams of crack cocaine resulted in a mandatory minimum sentence of five years without parole; the same rule only applied to powder cocaine if the perpetrator possessed five hundred grams.
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Growing political and public hysteria had emerged with the introduction of crack cocaine into urban communities, leading to the adoption of harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drugs and their increased prioritization by prosecutors.
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In 2014, a Massachusetts man murdered a woman with a 9mm Glock that he bought in Brattleboro, Vermont, in exchange for crack cocaine, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
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The connection was part of the rationale for making it 100 times easier to get a mandatory minimum sentence for crack cocaine over powder cocaine, even though the two drugs are pharmacologically identical.
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This provides a much quicker uptake than that achieved through oral or nasal administration—something that we can also observe in the difference between crack cocaine and cocaine powder dependencies, according to Jones.
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Ford, who made international news for his zany antics after admitting he smoked crack cocaine, was forced to drop his re-election bid after doctors found a tumor in his abdomen in 2014.
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Over time, Watkins becomes known for serving the finest "Rockafella" (the neighborhood moniker for top-shelf crack cocaine) to an assortment of scabby-faced fiends, former athletes, single moms and 9-to-5ers.
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"Crack cocaine scared the hell out of a lot of people," said William G. Broaddus, a former Virginia attorney general who is now in private practice and had no role in the case.
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He told Congress in 2009 that a law punishing the possession of crack cocaine far more harshly than the possession of powder cocaine was an "unmitigated disaster" that landed unfairly on minority communities.
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Rob Ford, the combative former mayor of Toronto who gained international notoriety with his confession of crack cocaine use, his public drunkenness and his belligerent clashes with other public officials, died on Tuesday.
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Although Lacey was a heroin and crack cocaine user at the time, she believes that if it wasn't for Paul*, she would never have been forced into increasingly dangerous and desperate criminal behavior.
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OTTAWA — Doug Ford, the brother of the former Toronto mayor who confessed to crack cocaine use and public intoxication, was narrowly elected on Saturday as leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives, the opposition party.
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The 2000,22014 drug overdose deaths in 403 were higher than the annual death tolls of any previous drug crisis, from the crack cocaine epidemic of the 240s and '22014s to past heroin epidemics.
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My friend Chad made some sinfully addictive pecan-chocolate crack-cocaine dessert something or other that I did not trust my fiendish sweet tooth to be home alone with for the weeks following.
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For one, it doesn't entirely control for the availability of these drugs, so it's possible heroin and crack cocaine in particular would be ranked higher if they were as readily available as alcohol.
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Mama June is on a dark path heading toward looming death ... so frets Honey Boo Boo, who's desperately urging her mom to seek help for what looks like a severe crack cocaine addiction.
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His hit productions have included fact-challenged videos like "Barack and Michelle Obama Both Come Out The Closet," which garnered 1.6 million views, and "Hillary Clinton Is On Crack Cocaine," which had 665,000.
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The measure expanded a 2010 law that reduced higher penalties for possession of crack cocaine, a drug used more by the poor and minorities, than for powder cocaine, used more by the wealthy.
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Mama June's drug arrest was more serious than we knew, because cops say she admitted the white powder they found was crack cocaine, and she was also caught with a needle and a pipe.
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A quarter of a century ago Washington was known as the "murder capital" of America, a result of a crack-cocaine epidemic (and the illicit market it gave rise to) from the mid-1980s.
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The measure expanded a 2010 law that reduced higher penalties for possession of crack cocaine, used more by the poor and minorities, than for powder cocaine, used more by the wealthy and middle class.
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In a post on Medium previewing his speech, Mr. Bush wrote in deeply personal terms about his daughter Noelle, who in 2002 was found with crack cocaine while at a rehabilitation center in Florida.
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The father said he threw them out for his son's own good and "would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine," the lawsuit says, according to Fox 17.
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The terminals have been called the "crack cocaine of high street gambling" by critics as they allow players to bet as much as 300 pounds a minute on high-speed games such as roulette.
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During the 1970s and '80s, federal and state lawmakers reacted to the heroin and crack cocaine epidemics of those times with punitive tough-on-crime policies, including the launch of the war on drugs.
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Mr. Desormeau had said he found a rock of crack cocaine on Mr. McCoy, and testing indicated that the twist bag in which the crack was found contained DNA that matched Mr. McCoy's sample.
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He held up a bag of crack cocaine — purportedly bought near the White House, though later the story was found to be a bit more complicated — and vowed to escalate the war on drugs.
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Throughout the crack cocaine epidemic, there was little or no discussion of the crisis being brought on by economic despair, or that it was a public health issue, or that the users needed rehabilitation.
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He acknowledged in court that he had been involved with the Bloods gang from 1999 to 2005, and had been arrested for possession of marijuana and crack cocaine, criminal trespass and other minor offenses.
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Chris Anderson, the head of a robotics and drone company and former editor of Wired, compared screens to sugar and crack cocaine, and told the Times he enforces strict rules for his five children.
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We just both happened to have been born in this neighborhood, and both our moms just happened to become addicted to crack cocaine, and we both just happened to go on and become artists.
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The 57-year-old had struggled with an addiction to crack cocaine in the wake of her parents' death years earlier, but Prince had supported her trip to get clean in a rehab facility.
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Meanwhile, with a crack cocaine crisis developing, HIV infection rates started to soar among Black women, as the drug spurred increased rates of unprotected sex—a problem that mostly affected poor communities of color.
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Flashback: This compassionate move marks a stark contrast with the hardline approach taken in the 1980s and 1990s during the crack-cocaine crisis, which resulted in mass arrests in majority black and Hispanic communities.
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The U.S. epidemic has led to far more overdose deaths and already lasted much longer than previous drug crises, like crack cocaine in the 1980s, and health experts fear it will spread to Europe.
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The brother had twice been arrested, the newspaper reported — once on charges that he sold crack cocaine, and again when he was accused of possessing ammunition and failing to comply with his bail conditions.
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The machine-gun charges were considered controversial, even within the Justice Department, because the law was created during the crack-cocaine epidemic in an effort to stem the use of military-grade automatic weapons.
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In a clemency application, Mr. Tharpe's lawyers described a tough childhood and an extensive history of substance abuse that they say included getting blackout drunk by age 10 and a debilitating crack cocaine habit.
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Before she was a model, actress and music video vixen, she told us she tried selling crack cocaine as a teenager in South Philadelphia ... but her dip into the drug game didn't pan out.
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Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) -- Edward Douglas, a former prisoner from Chicago who was serving a life sentence for selling crack cocaine in 2003 until being released last month under the First Step ActSen.
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This is the 3rd time Mama's been spotted hitting up an Alabama casino since her March arrest for crack cocaine ... and it's the 2nd time we've seen her try her luck at Wind Creek.
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Shannon was arrested on possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, the spokesperson said, adding that the substance was undergoing testing.
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Before he left the Senate to become vice president, he pushed to pull back tougher prison sentences for crack cocaine — an effort that helped lead to a law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010.
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They burst on the scene at a time when dookie gold chains were getting dookier, James Brown sampling was en vogue, and ghettos throughout the US were being littered with the hubris from crack cocaine.
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Shannon was arrested on possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, the spokesperson says, adding that the substance is undergoing testing.
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Why didn't you announce on the first day a zero-tolerance policy for stop and frisk, and hire Rudy Giuliani's guy in 2007, when I was trying to get rid of the crack cocaine disparity?
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Defending the law at the time, a frightened era of crack cocaine wars and record murder rates, Hillary Clinton, as first lady, warned about an emerging generation of "super-predators" — a notion she later repudiated.
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We didn't get this kind of sensitive, detailed portrayal of crack cocaine addiction in black communities in the 1990s, even as (or maybe because) the Clintons fueled white nightmares with visions of drug-addled superpredators.
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At these sites, called safe consumption facilities, addicts would receive clean needles and syringes and would be permitted to inject heroin, smoke crack cocaine and take other addictive drugs under the supervision of trained authorities.
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His administration became embroiled in scandal after a series of controversies involving inappropriate and bizarre behavior and incidents, including the surfacing of a video in 2013 that appeared to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine.
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While the gun death rate is higher than it has been in some time, he noted that it was even higher in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, which corresponded with heroin and crack cocaine epidemics.
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It includes one provision to address an issue that has been contentious for years, since the era when a mandatory minimum sentence would apply to a far smaller amount of crack cocaine than powder cocaine.
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I was able to escape to the safety of college, but I have jarring memories of what crack cocaine and guns and gangs did to my community, and it seemed as if no one cared.
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Last month, he expressed remorse for his handling of criminal justice issues, saying "I haven't always been right," and specifically pointed to a bill that created a sentencing disparity for powder cocaine versus crack cocaine.
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Although Sanders did in 1995 suggest that penalties for powder cocaine should be harsher to match penalties for crack cocaine, and boasted about supporting some "tough on crime" laws, particularly programs funding police, in 2006.
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"I stepped out against my own Republican administration and said openly on the floor of the Senate that I believe these crack cocaine laws were too harsh, particularly disadvantageous to the African-American community," Sessions replied.
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Joe Biden Biden, who served as vice president under former U.S. President Barack Obama, has proposed eliminating prison sentences for drug use, decriminalizing marijuana and eliminating sentencing disparities for offenses involving crack cocaine and powder cocaine.
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The bill would grant relief to between 2,000 and 3,000 people still serving jail time under the old system when possession of crack cocaine was treated as 100 times more serious than possession of powdered cocaine.
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This is the latest crisis for the WE tv star, who was arrested March 13 for alleged possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office confirmed to PEOPLE.
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Motherfuckers chose crack cocaine as a career choice, not knowing it was the Contra scandal that led to so many Americans having knowledge and experience of mixing baking soda with water and cocaine to make crack.
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It is now led by Doug Ford, a former Toronto city councillor and brother of the late Rob Ford, a former Toronto mayor who gained global notoriety for admitting to smoking crack cocaine while in office.
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Many older homeless people have been on the streets for almost a generation, analysts say, a legacy of the recessions of the late 1970s and early 1980s, federal housing cutbacks and an epidemic of crack cocaine.
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Smoking crack cocaine has been linked with numerous lung issues, including injuries to the airways, asthma, a range of symptoms referred to as "crack lung," interstitial lung disease, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, pulmonary hypertension, emphysema, infections, and tumors.
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Mama June and her boyfriend are in the market for a new lawyer in their crack cocaine arrests ... 'cause the one they had is done trying to defend 'em since they won't even talk to him.
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The situation is further complicated by Ford's sister-in-law, Renata Ford, widow of the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford who was best known for admitting in 2013 he had smoked crack cocaine while in office.
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Mr. Biden said he regretted supporting the tough-on-crime drug legislation of the 1453s and 1990s, expressing remorse in particular over a bill that created different legal standards for powdered cocaine and street crack cocaine.
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Citywide, homicides plummeted to 333 in 277, the lowest since comparable statistics started to be kept a half-century ago, from a peak of 220,229 in 211 when crack-cocaine drove so much of the city's violence.
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In urging people to say no to drugs, his comments channeled former First Lady Nancy Reagan, who famously launched a "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign when the crack cocaine epidemic was ravaging communities in the 1980s.
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The series follows the extremely likable Tray Barker (Morgan in his first role following the 2014 highway collision that put him in a coma), who is leaving prison after 15 years behind bars for dealing crack cocaine.
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IN A former warehouse under Manhattan bridge in New York, now home to a therapeutic community run by Phoenix House, 42-year-old Michael talks sadly of the cost of 30 years on heroin and crack cocaine.
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She faced felony charges that she tried to fill a fraudulent prescription for Xanax when she was 24, and later ended up in jail after she was found with pills and then crack cocaine in her shoe.
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Those who care for Honey Boo Boo are making sure Mama June can't dip in to her funds ... and it's all because of concerns over Mama's casino trips with boyfriend Geno Doak and their crack cocaine arrest.
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And it was stoked by a major 19943 federal drug act, which expanded mandatory sentences and set the now-notorious 21994-to-one ratio in the quantities of powdered versus crack cocaine that could trigger severe penalties.
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Twenty years later, the public's fear of urban gangs and the plague of crack cocaine led another crop of California politicians, Democrats among them, to promote the kind of harsh sentencing laws that soon swept the country.
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"There's no question one of the biggest issues confronting the country at that time was the whole phenomenon of crack cocaine, which had precipitated tremendous anxiety through the African-American community," Mr. Clyburn, who has endorsed Mrs.
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"Why did you announce on the first day a zero tolerance policy of stop-and-frisk and hire Rudy Giuliani's guy in 2007, when I was trying to get rid of the crack cocaine disparity?" he asked.
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"Why did you announce on the first day a zero-tolerance policy of stop-and-frisk and hire Rudy Giuliani's guy in 2007 when I was trying to get rid of the crack cocaine disparity," he said.
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Biden's proposal, however, appears aimed at reversing some of the effects of that crime bill, including the plan's call to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences and to close sentencing discrepancies for convictions related to powder and crack cocaine.
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The New York Daily News reported Tuesday that attorney Kafahni Nkrumah made the remarks before a judge last week in the case of Jamal Russell, who was accused and eventually convicted of conspiracy to sell crack cocaine.
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Adding to the data is a recent study, funded in part by a company applying to the Canadian government for a license to produce medical cannabis, exploring one possible harm reduction plan: swapping crack cocaine for marijuana.
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Lindell, an evangelical Christian and former crack cocaine addict who has been sober 10 years this January, has forged an unlikely path to the political arena, one that literally came about as the result of two dreams.
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Mr. Ford's only political experience is a single term on Toronto's City Council and his role as an adviser and unofficial spokesman for his brother Rob, who, while mayor, confessed to crack cocaine use and public intoxication.
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Officers were executing a search warrant at a neighboring property on Wednesday when one of the suspects listed in the warrant threw a bag of crack cocaine over the fence, Detroit police spokesman Dan Donakowski told CNN.
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Nor did it matter, when the drug war was taking off, that nearly all of the sensationalized claims that crack cocaine was some kind of "demon drug," drastically more harmful than powder cocaine, were false or misleading.
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Labeling it a health epidemic, not a war on drugs, marks a stark contrast with the criminal justice system's approach to the crack-cocaine plague, which was met by mass arrests in mostly black and Hispanic communities.
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LaWanda Clark, a person who used to have an addiction to crack cocaine, testified about how Guyger's words and actions helped her turn her life around after Guyger wrote her a ticket at a crackhouse in 2017.
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According to Sergeant Laurent Gingras, Montreal police searched the apartment and found $2280, 237 grams of marijuana, eight cellphones, six scales, two counterfeit credit cards, two crack rocks, and paraphernalia to cook large quantities of crack cocaine.
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The play seemed dated in its cultural references: the gold-clad promoter of glitzy society parties, the consumption of crack cocaine, and the rapper as a curious social phenomenon, echoes of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Blocking rewards: How the immune system could help treat cocaine addiction Crack cocaine has been ranked by experts as being the third most damaging drug and powdered cocaine, which causes a milder high, as the fifth most damaging.
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It's hard to know exactly when Eggie started using crack cocaine, but my mom says it was easy to recognize the signs — disappearing on pay days, suddenly being unable to pay his bills — because she'd seen them before.
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The middle child of his parents' three sons, he was born in 1981, at the beginning of an era plagued by crack cocaine, gang warfare and police brutality that culminated a decade later in the Rodney King riots.
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The nine member Wu-Tang Clan formed in Staten Island in New York in 1992 at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and quickly rose to be one of the most influential bands in early hip-hop.
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In addition to the death sentence for killing Hicks, Tibbetts also received life imprisonment for fatally beating and stabbing his wife, 42-year-old Judith Crawford, during an argument that same day over Tibbetts&apos crack cocaine habit.
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Such outcomes bring to mind the vast disparities in crack cocaine arrests, as well as the use of "stop and frisk" policing tactics often premised on drug law enforcement, and exacting a substantial toll in communities of color.
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" But he justified the tough sentencing policies he pushed for crack cocaine offenses in the early 1990s, saying it was a "different time" because "the crime rate had quintupled over the proceeding 30 years and peaked in 1992.
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The remainder of the "white chunk substance" that Officer Helms had tested positive with his field kit as crack cocaine totaled 0.0134 grams, Barker wrote on the examination sheet, about the same as a tiny pinch of salt.
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The New Jersey Democrat led the effort to pass the First Step Act, which, among other things, reduced mandatory minimum drug sentences and allowed resentencing to be applied retroactively to individuals convicted of crack cocaine offenses before 2010.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Rob Ford, the former mayor of Toronto who gained global notoriety for admitting to smoking crack cocaine while in office, has been moved into palliative care after his recent cancer treatment was unsuccessful, CP24 television reported.
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B.J. Walker, director of the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services, said her state saw big increases in children needing foster care during the crack cocaine wave in the 1990s and with methamphetamines beginning in the 2000s.
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But Richmond-Edwards' women, including her recent show of self-portraits, titled, The Cost of Making Her Run: Fear, Flight, Freedom, are all a byproduct of the crack cocaine epidemic that swept across black American communities in 1980s.
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The law specified a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison for possession of five grams of crack cocaine — a drug prevalent in African-American communities — or 500 grams of powder cocaine, more prevalent among white people.
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Some cities are experimenting with creating safe consumption facilities, where addicts would receive clean needles and syringes and would be permitted to inject heroin, smoke crack cocaine and take other addictive drugs under the supervision of trained authorities.
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Mr. Castro described their childhood in Washington Heights as fraught — it was a time when the city was buffeted by a crack cocaine epidemic and high rates of crime that hit the streets of their youth particularly hard.
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British gambling companies have been expanding across the Atlantic after stricter regulations at home cut the maximum stake allowed on high-speed slot machines - dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling by critics - to 2 pounds from 100 pounds.
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British gambling companies have been expanding across the Atlantic after stricter regulations at home cut the maximum stake allowed on high-speed slot machines - dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling by critics - to 2 pounds from 100 pounds.
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British gambling companies have been expanding across the Atlantic after stricter regulations at home cut the maximum stake allowed on high-speed slot machines - dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling by critics - to 13 pounds from 100 pounds.
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CreditCreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times In a Bronx police precinct that officers used to call "one square mile of danger," there is a particular block where guns, crack cocaine and hot tempers still seem to pool.
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Cops say Mama June was in possession of crack cocaine and a glass pipe, she also had $1300 cash in her bra ... and Geno -- who was also arrested for domestic violence/harassment -- had a needle in his pocket.
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The drug falls into the Class B category in Britain, below the status of crack cocaine and heroin but on a par with amphetamines and barbiturates, with those found in possession facing up to five years in jail.
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Charles has something of a wild story: He was sentenced to 22017 years for selling crack cocaine in 22018 but had his sentence shortened in 20143 under Obama-era policy changes that reduced the sentencing disparities for crack.
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Police paint a much different picture, describing a complicated array of factors that made finding the Grim Sleeper extremely tough, including the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a surge in violent crime, and even other active serial killers.
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In addition to the death sentence Tibbetts received for Hicks&apos killing, the inmate also received life imprisonment for fatally beating and stabbing his wife, 42-year-old Judith Crawford, during an argument over Tibbetts&apos crack cocaine habit.
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Some addiction experts worry that if the overdose crisis becomes less associated with white Americans, it could lead a return to the draconian policies of the crack cocaine era, when the government pushed users into prison instead of treatment.
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The eccentric politician, who made headlines in 2013 when he admitted he smoked crack cocaine, was forced to suspend his re-election bid after he was diagnosed with a rare, agressive form of cancer called pleomorphic liposarcoma in 2014.
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Jamal Russell, the defendant in the Manhattan case, was one of 32 defendants charged two years ago in what prosecutors described as a violent and longstanding crack-cocaine selling operation in and around the Lincoln Houses in East Harlem.
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And as violent crime fell in the late 1990s, with the end of the crack cocaine era, Mr. Morgenthau shifted the office's resources to securities fraud, cybercrime and other white-collar offenses, often entering turf battles with federal prosecutors.
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He also worked with Democrats to correct sentencing disparities that resulted in harsher penalties for those convicted of crimes involving crack cocaine, who were predominately black, than those convicted of powder cocaine, who were more likely to be white.
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At a treatment centre run by Catholic priests in Bissau, young men, most of them crack-cocaine addicts, say the drug can be bought for 2,000 west African francs ($3.50) a gram, a tenth of the price in Europe.
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The U.S. Sentencing Commission evaluated the impact of its 2007 reduction in sentences for certain low-level crack cocaine offenders and found no difference in recidivism rates among those who were released early and those who served longer sentences.
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The latter recently caused a scene in Brooklyn when a bunch of street addicts who smoke it all day—between hits of crack cocaine—OD-ed, collapsing on the pavement outside the subway station thanks to a bad batch.
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Much of this matched the rhetoric of the day, when Democrats and Republicans in the '80s and '90s pushed for lengthier prison sentences and "tough on crime" policies in general to combat a crime wave and a crack cocaine epidemic.
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Many conservatives and liberals are embracing the notion that eliminating some of the "tough on crime" policies of the 1980s and 1990s, like mandatory minimums, harsh sentences for crack cocaine and other drugs, and voting and job discrimination for ex-offenders.
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Their nude or partially clothed bodies were found dumped in alleys and trash bins in South Los Angeles, an area gripped by rampant drug abuse, prostitution and other crime at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic there during the 1980s.
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Beau Brady, a San Francisco resident and street performer, told BuzzFeed News that he gets asked several times a day if he'd like to buy drugs — most often heroin, methamphetamine, or crack cocaine — outside his apartment in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood.
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At the time, Wershe Jr., played by newcomer Richie Merritt, lived with his father (Matthew McConaughey), a grifter and an illegal firearms dealer, and his sister (Bel Powley), a user of crack cocaine, in a decrepit mansion on Detroit's East Side.
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Noelle was arrested in 2002 at the age of 24 for trying to fill a false prescription and was sentenced 10 days in jail for contempt of court after she was found with crack cocaine in a drug rehabilitation center.
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Rail firms' resistance to this corporate crack cocaine is hard to explain, but may reflect the lingering presence in their boardrooms of gnarled railmen with a love of horn blocks and glad-hand connectors, rather than earnings-per-share enhancement.
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Sentenced to a mandatory minimum sentence of life without the possibility of parole for selling 85033 grams of crack cocaine because of prior drug offenses, he served more than 12 years of that sentence before receiving a commutation last August.
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American cities have been trying to break this cycle of violence for the past four decades, from "Broken Windows" policing in the 235s to the imposition of mandatory minimums for drug offenses during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 25s.
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When Mr. Clinton ran for president in 1992, crack cocaine was ravaging American cities and the Willie Horton ad that the elder George Bush had used in 1988 to portray Michael Dukakis as soft on crime had wounded the Democratic Party.
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It was spring, it was rainy, it was the early nineties, meaning that "Seinfeld" was all the rage, and so was Michael Jordan, and so was crack cocaine, the latter of which, at this point, I had no firsthand knowledge.
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The legislation was a tough-on-crime response to rising meth usage, he says — a way to fight back against "the hillbilly crack" — and was written based on the weight triggers for crack cocaine, since lowered by the Fair Sentencing Act.
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But conservative criminal justice reforms advocates remain optimistic about Sessions, noting he authored the Drug Sentencing Reform Act in 85033 to decrease the amount of powder cocaine and increase the amount of crack cocaine necessary to trigger mandatory minimum sentences.
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Marjorie J. Peerce, a partner in New York with the law firm Ballard Spahr, praised Mr. Obama for commuting the sentences of people like Kevin County, a low-level drug offender convicted of distributing small amounts of heroin and crack cocaine.
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Their bodies were found dumped in alleys and trash bins in South Los Angeles, an area gripped by rampant drug abuse, prostitution and other crime at the height of a crack cocaine epidemic that engulfed impoverished neighborhoods during the 1980s.
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In fact, it's essentially a repeat of how we got here: In the 1980s and 1990s, federal lawmakers reacted to the crack cocaine epidemic with very harsh penalties — particularly mandatory minimum sentences — for crack and, to a lesser extent, other drugs.
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This week, customers could still score five grams of heroin — "first hand quality no mix" — for 0.021 Bitcoin (roughly $170), or a tenth of a gram of crack cocaine for 0.0017 Bitcoin (roughly $14) on the market known as Berlusconi.
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"There's not any political momentum for that right now," Jag Davies, who focuses on hallucinogen research at the Drug Policy Alliance, said, citing the general public's views of psychedelics as extremely dangerous — close to drugs like crack cocaine, heroin, and meth.
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"One day makes a difference because you don't know what that one day can bring about in a person's life," said Stephanie Nodd, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for her brief participation in a crack cocaine ring.
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The bill coincided with an economic boom, the cresting of the crack-cocaine wave and, according to one notorious theory, the unintended benefit of legalized abortion eliminating thousands of would-be criminals before they had a chance to be born.
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Their nude or partially clothed bodies were found dumped in alleys and trash bins in South Los Angeles, an area gripped by rampant drug abuse, prostitution and other crime at the height of a crack cocaine epidemic there during the 1980s.
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The crime that landed Mr. Rhines in prison for life was relatively minor — he was charged with participating in the sale, in Pennsylvania, of 66 grams of crack cocaine, a little more than the weight of a pack of M&Ms.
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Texas carried out the nation's first execution of 2017 on Wednesday night, putting to death Christopher Wilkins, who was convicted of killing two men who tricked him into paying $20 for a piece of gravel that he thought was crack cocaine.
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It's clear that Hunter used his last name and the perch of privilege in order to fund the crack cocaine habit that got him kicked out of the military and obviously got him mixed up in some very sordid public things.
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Later, Detective Desormeau testified before a grand jury in Queens that he saw the man hand two women something in exchange for money, and that he had a twist of crack cocaine in his possession when he was arrested, prosecutors said.
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Every story veers off into a lesson — on the history of the Bloods and Crips, the invention of whiteness and crack cocaine, the composition of plasma and the cultivation of apple trees — some sections only tenuously knitted into the narrative.
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" Mr. Biden has apologized for parts of his record, calling a law from the 1980s requiring harsher penalties for crack cocaine than powder cocaine — the former was more popular with African-Americans and the latter with whites — "a big mistake.
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In the 1930s, Mississippi solved 313% of black murders; in the early 1990s, Los Angeles County, then in the grip of a violent crack-cocaine epidemic, solved 36%; in 2015 the police in Baltimore solved 30.5% of murders, most of which involved blacks.
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It was an attempt to address a big issue in America at the time: Crime, particularly violent crime, had been rising for decades, starting in the 1960s but continuing, on and off, through the 1990s (in part due to the crack cocaine epidemic).
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Juan, in both the court filing and in interviews with BuzzFeed News, alleges that Guevara manipulated the witnesses into selecting him and his brother as payback for drugs stolen from a stash house where Juan lived and cooked crack cocaine for Miedzianowski's operation.
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The big picture: Opioid overdose deaths, like the crack cocaine epidemic did with black families in the 1980s, have put pressure on white senior citizens to move out of retirement neighborhoods and adult-only communities in order to take care of children.
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Prosecutors said Franklin stalked the streets of South Los Angeles as he preyed on prostitutes and drug addicts in a crime spree dating back 30 years to the mid-1980s, at the height of a crack cocaine epidemic that gripped the area.
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And, as Guy Jones, technical lead at drug testing kit supplier Reagent Tests UK and senior scientist at drugs harm reduction NGO The Loop explains, drugs such as methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and heroin are traditionally vaped anyway, albeit not through an electronic device.
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Researchers now argue that exposure to crack cocaine does not have devastating long term effects on babies, and can be easily cured through appropriate treatment—in fact, research shows that drinking alcohol during pregnancy is more harmful to the fetus than using cocaine.
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In 2012, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 9.26-gram baggie of crack cocaine found in a suspect's rectum could not be brought as evidence because it was obtained through an unconstitutional search, involving the medical sedation of the suspect.
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In response to Rosenfeld's research, some policymakers may be tempted to respond with a "tough on crime" crackdown — one that emphasizes locking up drug users and traffickers for exorbitant periods of time — like the one America deployed during the crack cocaine epidemic.
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"Freeway" Rick Ross -- who went to federal prison in 1996 after making millions as a drug kingpin during the '80s crack cocaine epidemic -- made his sentiments clear at LAX ... selling drugs is not a violent crime -- it boils down to simple economics.
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Almost two-thirds of them had been convicted of crack cocaine trafficking, according to an analysis by the Sentencing Commission, but there were many more drug defendants — nearly 2,600 — who met the criteria outlined by the Justice Department but did not get clemency.
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The network shuttled scalpel blades into lockups and organized the sale of crack cocaine and suboxone strips, which are prescribed to treat opioid addiction but were sold for $100 each inside a maximum security prison in Pine City, N.Y., according to the indictments.
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I was walking back to my dorm from chow, hamburger and fries, which is what is they served for lunch every Thursday at the federal prison in Oklahoma where I was in my 15th year of a life sentence for selling crack cocaine.
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Aiming to reverse the legacies of the 1994 crime bill, Mr. Biden called for eliminating discrepancies in sentencing between powder and crack cocaine and for the elimination of mandatory minimum sentencing, repeating and building on points he has made on the campaign trail.
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Federal guidelines mandated stiffer penalties for possession of crack cocaine, which is more common among black drug users, than for possession of the powdered version, which is more frequently used by whites, and as a result African-Americans were incarcerated in disproportionate numbers.
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The plan on the night in question in February 1993 was to have two white detectives, including Mr. Caruso, pretend to deal crack cocaine in a predominantly black neighborhood in Baton Rouge that had a high rate of street-level drug crime.
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So as this was -- as they were working on the appeal -- so he gets out based on the judge you just saw there, Kevin Sharp, saying he deserves to be out based on President Obama&aposs reevaluation on mandatory minimums, especially for crack cocaine sentences.
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The project was brought to Jenkins, who shared a very similar upbringing with the author: the two men "grew up blocks away from each other" in the same impoverished neighborhood, as Jenkins told NPR, and both had mothers who were addicted to crack cocaine.
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It was US outlet Gawker that would launch Toronto into a tailspin, at 8:28 pm on the night of May 16, 2013, when it published a jaw-dropping story under the headline: For Sale: A Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Smoking Crack Cocaine.
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They would include people in for marijuana-related offenses, those who would benefit from the recent sentencing reforms in the First Step Act if they had been applied retroactively, and those incarcerated under crack cocaine sentencing penalties that remain harsher than those for powder cocaine.
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Kolodny says this addiction problem is a lot different than what we've seen in the past, such as in the 1970s, when the heroin addiction epidemic disproportionately hit low-income minority communities, similar to the crack cocaine issues of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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In 2017, for instance, it released a report that found that black men received roughly 20 percent longer sentences between 2012 and 2016 than white men who committed the same crimes, even when accounting for past criminal histories and the shrinking crack-cocaine disparity.
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TORONTO, March 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of people turned out on Wednesday for the funeral of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose tumultuous four years as the leader of Canada's largest city included an admission that he smoked crack cocaine and a history of erratic behavior.
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The defendant was a young woman who had shipped 10 pounds of crack cocaine across state lines after her aunt had handed her the wrapped package, which bore no return address, and a wad of cash for the "favor" and watched from a safe distance.
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Harry Shapiro, director of the charity DrugWise, says the number of users fell because of a huge investment in drug treatment, an economic upturn, and the fact that, like Ebola in west Africa and crack cocaine in the US, all epidemics have their natural lifespans.
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As we've reported ... Mama's been pretty desperate for cash since last year's arrest for crack cocaine possession ... she sold her house for much less than it's worth in a cash transaction, got booted from a hotel over an unpaid $2k bill, and recently pawned a diamond ring.
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Public health officials in Rhode Island have warned of fentanyl contaminating cocaine, a danger to cocaine users who are not habituated to opioid use, and in West Philadelphia last June, 18 people overdosed and three died after smoking crack cocaine they didn't know was laced with fentanyl.
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One witness, Jessica Lowry, testified that she was partying with Claytor, McCrary and two other women the night of Claytor's death and that Claytor and McCrary got into an argument about Claytor's alleged use of the last of their supply of crack cocaine, the paper reports.
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Consider a hypothetical scenario, raised to me by Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates: Back in the 1980s and early '19803s, America was ravaged by the crack cocaine epidemic, with thousands of overdoses a year and thousands more murders associated with the drug trade at the time.
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While they were primarily concerned with rising crime rates and finding ways to tamp down violence in their communities, they joined with others -- who seemingly harbored more nefarious goals -- to push tough-on-crime laws that led to harsher penalties for crack cocaine than the powdered version.
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By the mid-1980s, spiraling rates of crack cocaine use combined with some of the nation's toughest drug laws led to a perfect storm of incarceration; between 1974 and 2002, the New York State prison population rose from 14,85003 to 70,700 people — a near-500 percent increase.
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The other, who was a frequent user, was using crack cocaine laced with fentanyl and was also killed... If people are going to be doing drugs, because they will whether we like it or not, then there's got to be a way to make it less dangerous.
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Lindell most recently visited the White House in October, where he spoke at a Trump administration opioid abuse summit about his past experiences as a crack cocaine addict, something he says he shared with Trump when the two men first met during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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On appeal, he argued that his trial defenders failed to present evidence that he suffered throughout his life from severe learning disabilities and problems stemming from earlier head injuries and was physically abused by his father, who used crack cocaine and also once kidnapped his mother.
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The few exceptions were a 3003-year-old Caucasian man who plead guilty to stealing $281.90 worth of chicken, beef, and shrimp from the local grocery store, and the parade of a half-dozen white men of varying ages who were being charged with trafficking crack cocaine.
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Kanye uses "Jerome" as a stereotypical African-American name and "Brandon" as a stereotypical Caucasian name to drive the point that black men can get longer prison sentences than white men for the same crime, as has been reported with the 100:1 crack/cocaine disparity.
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The First Step Act retroactively applies the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which fixed a longstanding injustice by reducing the 100:1 crack-to-powder cocaine ratio (meaning that one gram of crack cocaine was weighed as equivalent to 100 grams of powder cocaine) to 18:20193.
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Two New York City gang detectives who were arrested last month on charges of fabricating the details of a gun arrest in Manhattan have been charged in a second case, in which prosecutors have accused the investigators of framing a man for selling crack cocaine in Queens.
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In an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, prosecutors said that one of the detectives, Kevin Desormeau, testified before a grand jury about watching as a man identified by his lawyer as Roosevelt McCoy exchanged money with two women on the street and was then arrested carrying crack cocaine.
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And last year, she took the popular rap song that all the kids were singing—"Trap Queen" by Fetty Wap, about a guy teaching his girlfriend how to make crack cocaine—found the background music and organized a competition for students to rewrite the lyrics with science content.
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She was arrested on possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office told PEOPLE in March, adding at the time that the substance was undergoing testing.
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Betting shops cluster overwhelmingly in deprived areas, their hugely controversial fixed-odds betting terminals – described by campaigners as "the crack cocaine of gambling" – taking around £20bn worth of bets each year (the government moved quickly to regulate these terminals, strictly limiting their maximum intake to £50 every 20 seconds).
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"The CIA admitted in 1998 that guerrilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling illegal drugs into the United States — drugs that were making their way onto the streets of inner-city black neighborhoods in the form of crack cocaine," Alexander writes in her book (page 6).
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Additionally, a Houston cocaine supplier, Joseph Antoine testified that he provided Jones with cocaine to be sold at the family "crack house" that Jones and her siblings and mother were alleged to be dealing from, accusing Jones herself of setting the market price for crack cocaine in the area.
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The war was actually declared by by President Richard Nixon back in 1971, but it was Reagan who really set the wheels in motion, as the popularity of cocaine continued to boom, crack cocaine emerged on inner city streets and drug cartels south of the border became increasingly powerful.
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He said yes and referred Ms. DuVernay to Mr. Gingrich, who despite being on the opposite side of the aisle, is now his good friend, and talks in the film about the disparity in sentencing guidelines for white users of powder cocaine and black users of crack cocaine.
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The driver, James Ferrari, said Suffolk County violated his due process rights by impounding his 2003 Ferrari 360 Spider after police caught him driving while intoxicated, and in possession of crack cocaine, at over 100 miles per hour (162 kph) in the village of Bellport, court records show.
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In 2013, when the last relevant study was conducted, there were an estimated 300,1553 heroin and crack cocaine users in the UK. In 2015, a study by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction found that the UK has the highest rate of heroin use in Europe.
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It would also extend retroactively a reduction in the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine signed into law in 2010, which could affect thousands of drug offenders serving lengthy sentences for crack-cocaine offenses, which were dealt with far more harshly than the same crimes involving powder cocaine.
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Mama June was arrested in March on possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office told PEOPLE, adding at the time that the substance was undergoing testing.
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Shannon was arrested in March on possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office told PEOPLE, adding at the time that the substance was undergoing testing.
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When they inspected the second-floor bedroom, they discovered the 48-year-old Eva's body buried under a pile of blankets, her hand still holding a silver foil and wire wool used to smoke crack cocaine, according to "Mayhem," a new memoir by Mr. Rausing's sister Sigrid Rausing.
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The resulting law, the First Step Act, also expanded job training for inmates, reduced some sentences and allowed the release of some inmates serving lengthy terms for crack cocaine offenses, including one man, Matthew Charles, who attended the State of the Union this month as Mr. Trump's guest.
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Last week, the United States Sentencing Commission, an independent agency that advises federal judges on carrying out changes to sentencing policy, reported that in the four months after the law went into effect, more than 1,000 federal inmates were granted a sentence reduction for offenses involving crack cocaine.
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Take, for instance, the murder rate over the past several decades, which was unusually high from the 1970s through the early '90s: The media went into a frenzy over these types of numbers, widely covering gang and gun violence, drug use among children, and the crack cocaine epidemic.
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She's currently focusing on a homeless encampment in the Bronx, where ballpoint pens, bottle caps, Styrofoam scraps, broken toys, film canisters, condoms, tiny vials that once contained crack cocaine, and hairclips provide clues to the lives of the people who have passed through the squat since at least the 1980s.
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Prosecutors say the victims were sexually assaulted before their deaths, their bodies were found dumped in alleys and trash bins in South Los Angeles, an area gripped by rampant drug abuse, prostitution and other crime at the height of a crack cocaine epidemic that engulfed impoverished neighborhoods during the 1980s.
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The war on drugs was gaining momentum, and its racially motivated sentencing laws—drugs more likely to be used by minority communities, like crack cocaine, were criminalized at a rate of 100 to one relative to drugs favored by white communities—helped reinforce the already entrenched notion of blackness as criminality.
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A number of people we met on Hyde Street distinguished between the residents of the Tenderloin, many of them immigrant families, and those they called "street people" — the unsheltered drug users who congregate and camp along the sidewalks and the dealers who peddle crack cocaine, heroin and a variety of amphetamines.
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In finding Detective Desormeau, 34, guilty of perjury and related charges, the jury accepted the prosecution's argument that he had not witnessed the man dealing drugs and had simply decided to search him on a hunch, which turned out to be correct: He seemed to have had crack cocaine on him.
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Shannon, 40, was arrested in March on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office told PEOPLE, adding at the time that the substance was undergoing testing.
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In March, Shannon was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office told PEOPLE in March, adding at the time that the substance was undergoing testing.
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Mitchell S. Jackson, 40, writer and author of the novel The Residue Years that follows the life of Grace, a recovering drug addict, and her drug-dealing son in a black neighborhood ravaged by the crack-cocaine epidemic in 1990s Portland, Oregon Black History Month is a point of pride for me.
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Under questioning, John William Jenkins, 39, who was identified by police as Fox's boyfriend, "admitted that on the evening prior to the crash he cut the victim's brake lines while at their residence in an attempt to obtain a metal pipe that could be used to smoke crack cocaine," according to law enforcement.
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But Sessions's backers point to his sponsorship of prison reform bills, including the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and legislation aimed at reducing the sentencing discrepancy between crack cocaine and powder cocaine, a loophole that has disproportionately imprisoned black men for longer periods of time than white offenders guilty of the same crime.
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Earlier this year, Shannon, 40, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her, a spokesperson for the Macon County District Attorney's Office told PEOPLE in March, adding at the time that the substance was undergoing testing.
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Opioid epidemic destroys a poor White community: NationalPublicHealth Crisis Pierce, who starred in HBO's "The Wire," a show that dealt with drug addiction and race relations in Baltimore, is referring to "tough on crime" policies that emerged in response to the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s, which disproportionately affected black Americans.
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Here's the memo, which in part asks prosecutors to pursue capital punishment in cases "dealing in extremely large quantities of drugs": Sessions can ask federal prosecutors to do this under a law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, when fears of crack cocaine and crime led to increasingly punitive criminal justice policies.
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The obvious work he put into his muscle tone is on full display in a scene in which Efron's character, who is already drunk, unknowingly smokes crack cocaine and proceeds to take off all his clothes save for a stuffed bumblebee tied around his private parts, which he then rubs on several female partygoers. 2.
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In the past, the office has been highly focused on illegal drugs, like cocaine and heroin; the position of drug czar was created by President Richard Nixon during a past heroin epidemic in the 1970s, and it was made permanent and official through the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, during the crack cocaine epidemic.
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Set in early '90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs, aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
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Moore in 2015 described the Fed's "zero-interest-rate policy ... just as an addict craves crack cocaine" -- a position he has since reversed as Trump has turned on the Fed's efforts to dampen any potential inflationary pressure and keep the economy in check as it absorbs the Republican tax cut and other expansionary measures.
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Because the crisis has disproportionately affected white Americans, white lawmakers — who make up a disproportionate amount of all levels of government — are more likely to come into contact with people afflicted by the opioid epidemic than, say, the disproportionately black drug users who suffered during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 103s and '90s.
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Unlike the heroin epidemic of the 1960s and 1970s and the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, the current epidemic isn't a problem left to mostly urban, low-income, and black areas; the places reporting the biggest struggles with opioids — particularly in West Virginia and New Hampshire — tend to be rural and suburban, white, and middle class.
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The company, which plans to cut about a third of its betting shops and jobs in Britain, said adjusted operating profit fell 13% to 76.2 million pounds ($92.50 million) for the six months ended June 26, as the government cut the maximum stake permitted on fixed-odds terminals, dubbed the "crack cocaine" of gambling by their critics.
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Related: LA's 'Grim Sleeper' Serial Killer Convicted of 10 Murders — But He Likely Killed More Prosecutors said Franklin stalked the streets of South Los Angeles as he preyed on prostitutes and drug addicts in a crime spree dating back 30 years to the mid-1980s, at the height of a crack cocaine epidemic that gripped the area.
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In 22019, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act, which brought the penalties for selling crack and powder cocaine in line — in part the result of lobbying that argued the amount of crack cocaine needed to trigger federal crime penalties relative to powder cocaine, previously set at a 100-to-1 weight ratio, disproportionately impacted African-Americans.
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With only weeks left in office, Mr. Obama should consider a bolder approach: blanket commutations for those inmates still serving time under an old law that punished possession or sale of crack cocaine far more harshly than powder cocaine — a meaningless distinction that sent disproportionate numbers of young black and Latino men to prison for decades.
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In addition, by reducing the number of levels of review, the president could focus more effectively on those cases that may matter most to him — for example, the hundreds of prisoners, nearly all of them black, who are serving excessively long terms under crack-cocaine laws that were subsequently reformed with the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.
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The murder took place against the backdrop of a crack cocaine epidemic that in 1990 fueled more than 500 homicides in Philadelphia and led to gun battles regularly in the streets, said Jim Figorski, a lawyer with the firm Dechert LLP who worked on Mr. Thomas's case and who was a Philadelphia police officer for 25 years.
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Take this one story reported by Santo, again demonstrating how potentially innocent people are swept up by the current bail system: One recent client was Steven Cordon, 23, who was accused of having 1.6 grams of crack cocaine and was booked into Chicago's Cook County Jail this April because he didn't have $2,000 to bail himself out.
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They acted with an eye toward reversing the devastating impact that President Bill Clinton's omnibus crime bill had on communities of color, and reducing the astronomical incarceration rate that resulted from harsher penalties imposed for possession and distribution of crack cocaine (more prevalent in economically disadvantaged communities of color) than those imposed for powder cocaine (which was more prevalent within affluent white communities).
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And the public knew it: Gallup's polling shows Americans in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and especially the early 1990s (likely due to the crack cocaine epidemic) were much more likely to say that crime was "the most important problem" facing the US. In response, all levels of government escalated prison sentences for almost all crimes — not just drug offenses, but violent ones, too.
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The truth is that when black people went through a similar crisis in the 1980s and '90s with crack cocaine, we listened to those, like a Princeton researcher, who told us that there would be a rapid rise of supposed "super predators," juveniles (read black) essentially void of souls who would become a menace to society in ways we had never seen before.
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In recent days, with all the hype over on-again, off-again momentum around the First Step Act—the Trump-backed bill that promises to rein in federal mandatory-minimum and three-strikes laws, and apply Obama-era crack/cocaine sentencing reforms retroactively—I reached out to men doing time in the federal Bureau of Prisons to gauge their hopes, fears, and frustrations.
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Investigators found video of the suspect, Clifford McClinton, 25, hiding a silver firearm and changing his clothes after he fled, and they believe he is connected with a Bloods-affiliated gang set known to sell crack cocaine in the area, said Patrice O'Shaughnessy, a spokeswoman for the Bronx district attorney's office, which secured an indictment against him on five counts of attempted murder.
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Take, for instance, the murder rate over the past several decades, which was unusually high from the 1970s through the early '90s: Drug use was similarly high during the late 1970s and early '80s, based on Monitoring the Future data for high school seniors: The media went into a frenzy over these types of numbers, widely covering gang and gun violence, drug use among children, and the crack cocaine epidemic.
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It's produced and co-written (along with Alex Tse) by the group's The RZA, inspired by the books "The Wu-Tang Manual" and "The Tao of Wu." Frequently entertaining, 10 parts is still an awful lot to ask of an audience on this kind of dive into musical history, which chronicles Wu-Tang's rise during the early 1990s, amid all the dangers and excesses associated with the crack cocaine epidemic.
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As the Home Office today launches a new £40 million [$56 million] strategy to reduce youth violence and tackle the county lines drug trade—identifying the "devastating effect of crack cocaine as a key driver" in the rise of the violence, and blaming social media for allowing young people to taunt rivals—explanations of why young people are getting stabbed to death in such large numbers have rained down from all angles.
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HIV risk-related behaviors were described in the study as, in the past year, having five or more opposite-sex sexual partners; having male-to-male sex; having had sex in exchange for money or drugs; having had sex with an HIV-positive partner; having had sex with a partner who injects illicit drugs; using injectable illicit drugs, crack cocaine or meth; and for women, having sex with male partners who had sex with other males.
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There's no arguing that Biden's laws mostly targeted black and brown communities and have perpetuated the racial disparities in today's justice system -- from legislation he co-sponsored in 1988 that created huge sentencing disparities for possession of the cheaper crack cocaine (popular in black and brown communities) and powder cocaine (the chosen drug, then, of mostly affluent white users), to those that dramatically increased prison funding and established harsh mandatory drug sentences for low-level offenses.
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Residents talk about the devastating impact of crack cocaine on a neighborhood already notorious for its red light activities, the unspoken but harshly enforced racial lines that historically divided the Corridor from some of its surrounding neighborhoods, and the impact of various billionaires on their daily living conditions — in addition to the encroaching Ilitch Nation, Corridor residents and business owners are experiencing a great deal of pressure from a wave of development piloted by Quicken Loans magnate Dan Gilbert.
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