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Crack is substantially cheaper to obtain than powdered cocaine. Crack is just powdered cocaine that's been cooked with other substances, essentially diluting it
by moate 8y ago
Crack is substantially cheaper to obtain than powdered cocaine. Crack is just powdered cocaine that's been cooked with other substances, essentially diluting it.
The question is purely price, and it's the system targeting drug users of certain class/ethnic groups more than others. If you look at drug law enforcement in the US, it's substantially more punitive towards poor/minority groups.
- moate 8y ago1- Can't imagine ya'll refute what crack is/the pricing of it since those are just objective facts. So, for anyone who's salty that the system is rigged against poor people/minorities: Citation A: https://www.vera.org/publications/for-the-record-public-health-justice-system-responses-opioid-crisis https://www.vera.org/publications/for-the-record-public-heal... Citation B: http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war Citation C: https://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/ACF4F34.pdf https://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/ACF4F34.pdf Citation D: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/06/28/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-minorities-and-the-poor/#5d4e5960624c https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/06/28/the-war-on-... I can do a the standard English alphabet, the Greek alphabet, simplified Chinese, Japanese kanji and any other alphabets you guys would like me to tack on with sources that state the same thing: The War On Drugs is a War on Poor People and Minorities.