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No, you have it backwards. It wasn't legal for anyone to manufacture crack cocaine. The police were already committing illegal acts by doing so. I suspect th
by kelnos 2y ago
No, you have it backwards. It wasn't legal for anyone to manufacture crack cocaine. The police were already committing illegal acts by doing so. I suspect they weren't really punished for it, though, unfortunately. But the court case was more about whether or not this chain of (already illegal) activity could be used to prosecute people for buying crack, and the answer was "no".
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoThe actual problem might have been that the people who could be baited with powder cocaine were out of bounds for the police. But they had this large supply of powder cocaine meanwhile if it were crack cocaine they'd have plenty of legitimate targets.