Actually good. The sentencing disparity was racist anyway. Of course this disparity was asked for by the liberal politicians in charge of the inner cities (read: “black”) where crack use is prevalent.
Somehow, blacks still think liberals are their best friend when quite the opposite is true.
And somehow they care not a lick for the fact that crack is much more potent than cocaine, putting susceptible people at greater risk for addictions and heart attacks, etc.
the disparity had nothing to do with race, it had to do with the dangerousness of the two. Crack is far more likely to kill you than powder.
Bingo. The crack scare of the 1980’s and 90’s was based on a lot of bad science and panicked reactions by lawmakers (sound like any OTHER issue you could name?)
and if nothing else, in a time of trying to cut federal spending this will help:
It costs 22,632 per year to house a federal prisoner, so by my calculations this will save us $271,584,000 PER YEAR and if this shaves a decade or more off their sentences, that’s a significant chunk of change