Crack cocaine

greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas” (Levitt & Dubner, 2009, p. 102). Gang members do this because when they grow up crack dealing was “the best job they thought they had access to” (Levitt & Dubner, 2009, p. 102). But like most every other “good” jobs, there were more people looking for work than there were jobs to be had; in this case, there were not enough street corners to sell crack (Levitt & Dubner, 2009,…

The American Cocaine Era, from the Early 1980s to early 1990s, is viewed from many as a thing of the past but the very effects that it has had on society and cities such as Los Angeles has withstood the test of time. Los Angeles felt the blow from crack cocaine early on as 1980s as it was a new way for addicts to get their “kicks.” In fact by 1982, “Los Angeles hospital emergency rooms reported the nation's greatest increase in cocaine overdoses,” which now established Los Angeles as a city that…

saw him as a great politician. Besides all of Rob Ford’s political ideals and racial comments, how Rob Ford really made a name for himself in the world as a canadian, was his drug scandal. Rob Ford had the extremely unhealthy habit of smoking crack cocaine and was an alcoholic. He was frequently viewed intoxicated in public settings. Such as at Ball games and a st. Patrick 's day parade. Rob Ford was constantly humiliating himself in his “drunken stupors”. Often saying racial and political…

seen in the way we prosecute cocaine drug offenders. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act was passed by Congress in 1986, in response to the increased usage of cocaine around the nation. However, this act mandated criminal penalties for the possession of crack cocaine that were much more severe than that of powder cocaine. The possession of 500 grams of powder cocaine yields a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first offense; yet it takes merely 28 grams of crack cocaine to prompt the same sentence…

While watching Law and Order or NCIS, it is common to hear about the policy known as the Mandatory Minimal Sentencing. When someone goes to court they are told how long they need to serve for their crime, the lowest and highest. The lowest is set by the Mandatory Minimal Sentencing policy. The policy impacted prisons across the country. There has been an enormous rise in the prison population, along with the guidelines causing discrimination with in the justice system. When the policy was…

on most people’s mind is should the justice system be reformed? The main question on a lot of people’s mind is how the justice system get so jacked up. It all started back in 1986 when the devil known as Ronald Reagan was president, there was crack everywhere and I’m not talking about on the sidewalk or your plumber’s…

The Effect of Drugs on the Economy The drug trade has allowed for kingpins to make billions of dollars through illegal activities. This large amount of money being made illegally can have an obvious effect on local and national economies. Despite this, there may be ways to flip this loss of money to illegal activities and turn it into a beneficial industry for our economy. A question that must be addressed about drugs is “how have drugs impacted the economy in the past 50 years?” Drugs have…

For the small percentage of women of color who end up in prison for violent offenses, this is usually due to domestic violence within homes or relationships, in which these women must physically defend themselves and their children from their attackers. “Socioeconomic status and cultural background significantly influence the impact of domestic violence,” and determines who is more susceptible to becoming victims and who has access to protective resources (Solinger et al. 265). Often times,…

My face twisted. Gently, I placed the freshly baked chocolate chip cookie I had been washing down with my whiskey into the garbage, “Ew.” “I ended up having to drag him to the tub and wipe his bottom with wet napkins,” she went on, “After that, I couldn’t take it anymore. I left.” If I would be inclined to give the ladies any advice, it would be to shut the fuck up about your ex-boyfriend war stories. I don’t want to hear how you smeared shit on your love’s asshole once upon a time. Amy’s…

have to do to get your respect?” “If you're really as hard as you say, come with us and rape an innocent bystander,then we'll know your hard.” After that he took a couple of minutes to contemplate if he should go back to his old life of sell weed and crack but his dream of cars and diamonds made him say,”i'll meet you at a quarter to three!” The next day they drove around there hood slowly while it was pouring,Smokin' blunts, drinking' and joking' for entertainment, until they saw a woman…