Seeing Black Male Humanity: How the President Can Take on the Prison …

Published February 18, 2014

Seeing black male humanity: How the president can take on the Prison …

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics United States

The Obama administration has led the way in reducing the crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity, which was initially 100 to 1. The disparity now stands at 18 to 1. And there is now a bill in Congress that would retroactively apply the DOJ's new … Read more on Salon

Philip Seymour Hoffman and the middle-aged drug epidemic

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics United States

There are many reasons for the difficulties in addressing America's drug abuse crisis. One is the inability to shift away from the traditional politics of treating “wars on drugs” as crusades, blaming feared populations for feared drugs — historically … Read more on Reuters Blogs (blog)