Senators Take Major Step Toward Ending Drug War
Senators Take Major Step Toward Ending Drug War
Filed under: Faces Of Crack Cocaine Users
And it would allow thousands of current inmates to return to court to seek fairer sentences in accordance with the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, a measure that reduced the vast sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine crimes. The bill … Read more on Huffington Post
Ending violence calls for drastic measures
Filed under: Faces Of Crack Cocaine Users
Zambo's Son Back in Trouble With the Law
Zambo's Son Back In Trouble With The Law
Filed under: crack cocaine sentencing disparity
When the search turned up a number of illicit drugs both were charged with Possession of Cannabis, Possession of Crack, Possession of Crack with Intent to Supply, and Possession of Cocaine. In other … Kelvin George of Carty Alley, Newtown was … Read more on The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer
The bipartisan effort Obama left out of the State of the Union
Filed under: crack cocaine sentencing disparity
Senators Take Major Step Toward Ending Drug War
Senators Take Major Step Toward Ending Drug War
Filed under: Faces Of Crack Cocaine Images
And it would allow thousands of current inmates to return to court to seek fairer sentences in accordance with the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, a measure that reduced the vast sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine crimes. …. But … Read more on Huffington Post
Chad Davis murder trial: The evidence in week two
Filed under: Faces Of Crack Cocaine Images
Grandmother Arrested for Selling Crack
Grandmother arrested for selling crack
Filed under: crack cocaine usage
(WTNH)–A grandmother in Killingly is being accused of selling crack cocaine out of her house, which sits near St. James Parochial School. Police say 45-year old Ethel Straight was selling drugs just 200 feet away from St. James. Authorities were … Read more on WTNH
Texas drug policy conference kicks off Friday with speech by scientist-author …
Filed under: crack cocaine usage
These Men Sentenced to Die in Jail for Non-Violent Drug Crimes Got a Lucky …
These Men Sentenced to Die in Jail for Non-Violent Drug Crimes Got a Lucky …
Filed under: Cocaine Vs Crack Disparity
He reduced their sentences in line with the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which eliminated the 100-to-1 disparity between sentences for crack cocaine and powder cocaine. "If they had been sentenced under the current law, many of them would have already … Read more on Politix
Wickham: Finally, a step toward legal fairness
Filed under: Cocaine Vs Crack Disparity
Don't Get Too Carried Away by Gold's Good 2014 Start
Don't get too carried away by gold's good 2014 start
Filed under: Effects Of Cocaine Vs Crack Cocaine
In truth a rising stock market virtually purely due to liquidity being pumped into the markets by the Fed actually has little drop down effect on the person in the street who does not have the money to invest – indeed who has seen incomes fall in real … Read more on Mineweb
Senators demand changes to mandatory sentencing laws
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After 20 Years, Menino Leaves a City Strong but Flawed
After 20 Years, Menino Leaves A City Strong But Flawed
Filed under: crack cocaine laws
“When Mayor Menino comes into office, in Four Corners there were young men that would stand out on the roofs at Algonquin and Bradley with AK-47s and shotguns — right up in the roofs — and patrol a major, kind of, crack cocaine drug cartel,” says the … Read more on WBUR
Sixth Circuit Crack Cocaine Sentencing Decision Also Relevant to Civil …
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Obama Commutes Sentences of 8 People Convicted of Drug Crimes
Obama Commutes Sentences Of 8 People Convicted Of Drug Crimes
Filed under: Crack Cocaine Intervention
The president signed the Fair Sentencing Act in 2010 to reduce penalties for crack cocaine offenses in order to reduce the disparity with powder cocaine penalties. But the act addressed only new cases, not old ones. The White House said Thursday that … Read more on Huffington Post
Addiction Intervention – Why Families Wait (4of7) – http://www.InterventionServicesInc.com Why Families Wait to do an Intervention (Part 4 of 7) A Presentation done by David Lee, Founder of Intervention Servic…
Obama Could Have Been Clarence Aaron
Obama could have been Clarence Aaron
Filed under: crack cocaine history
PardonPower blogger P.S. Ruckman placed Obama "among the most merciless presidents in the history of the United States." Obama did sign the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which reduced the disparity between cocaine and crack sentences, which … Read more on San Francisco Chronicle
Blacks & Mexicans unite for Oscar Grant after Mehserle verdict in Los Angeles – On Thursday, Oscar Grant supporters organized a rally at Leimert Park in South Los Angeles after Johannes Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter …