Crack cocaine

people that bad breath was a disease and that the only way to cure themselves from this disease was to use listerine. Another way that challenged conventional wisdom were the statistics that showed that the majority of crack dealers still lived with their mothers. During the “Crack Epidemic” in the 1980s, a sociology Ph.D. named Sudhir Venkatesh set out to study poverty in Chicago.…

national survey on Drug Use and Health in 2010 has estimated that 22.6 million adolescents in the United States ages 12 and up were currently on some type of illicit drug. There are many different type of illicit drugs to include marijuana, cocaine (including crack), Ecstasy, methamphetamine, heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, and prescription-type psychotherapeutic drugs. Alcohol is the most popular drug probably because it is easier to get then other drugs. Marijuana active ingredient is…

dominated by whites, but also how his success affected the relationships of his family and friends. Dr. Hart shows us how the media distorts the facts of drug use. As well as how the government uses drug policies as institutionalized racism on the "crack-cocaine epidemic." How the knowledge Hart's gained throughout his research helped to debunk common myths about drugs as we know them. When it comes to the relationship between; drugs, crime, and violence, the media/government has a flawed…

Imagine being enslaved for four hundred years, imagine gaining freedom, then imagine that freedom being stripped from you by our legal system. Ladies and Gentlemen I am here to talk about, inform, and propose what we shall do as a community to eliminate the criminal injustice we witness inside of our prison system everyday. The day slavery was terminated in 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and slavery ended, white men yet again found another systematic way to extort free…

originally a surgical antiseptic tool began being sold as a distilled form and used for a floor cleaner and also later found out that it was a cure for gonorrhea. A point of conventional wisdom that is discussed in this article is that drug dealing, crack dealing is one of the most profitable jobs in America! A student named Sudhir Venkatesh with his…

This policy is reinforced by over-policing in these communities that put more individuals in prison from disadvantaged backgrounds. Whites are the most documented users of crack cocaine, but blacks are the majority of those convicted for crack offenses (Provine, 2007 p.4). A policy recommendation to reduce victimization of racial minorities would be to help improve social programs like schools in minority neighborhoods. Many minority communities in the inner…

The CIA’s Shadow: Contras, Drugs and Lies By the mid-80s, a series of official and journalistic investigations that assured the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the Nicaraguan Contra and cocaine trafficking, came to light. This studies claimed that the government of Ronald Reagan, US President at the time, had illegally helped an army of counterrevolutionary mercenaries in Central America. However, and despite the conclusive evidence, the intelligence service executed a…

Crack is a smokable form of cocaine that is significantly purer (75-100% pure) and stronger than powder cocaine (“What is Crack Cocaine”). Crack became popular in poor, urban black communities because it was highly profitable, easy to produce, cheap, easy to use and caused an intense and immediate high (“Crack Cocaine: A Short History”). The crack epidemic caused a surge in violence in the black community; between 1984 and…

poverty, the rights that felons lose after incarceration, the difficulties of reintegration to society, recidivism, and Supreme Court cases. During the war on drugs, law enforcement was encouraged to go after crack cocaine instead of powder cocaine. At that time, it was well known that crack cocaine was commonly used…

publicized the use of crack as a drug that promotes violence and “ the most addictive drug known to man.” (Newsweek.1986). As the public concern of the drug grew bigger, Reagan called for a “war on drugs” like Nixon did. This lead to the creation of the “ 1968 Drug Abuse Act”, which was harsh on African Americans. The act created a 100 to 1 sentencing disparity for crack vs. powder cocaine possession (FAMM.2012). This meant if a person was to be caught with 1 grams of crack cocaine received a…