Racism and the Drug War

The "war on drugs" is as political as it is controversial.  Nothing is more revealing than the discrepancy in sentencing on crack cocaine, verses powder cocaine offenders.  Coincidentially, and yet suspiciously, African Americans are more likely to be caught with crack cocaine.  Thus, he comes the politics.  There is no difference other than who deals that drug, so why is there such a disparity. Thankfully, research and common sense have stepped in to alleviate the discrepancy.  Congress has enacted a bill designed to remedy the racist sentencing practices.  Typically, the users and lower level dealers will have crack cocaine, where http://huff.to/93C46q via @huffingtonpost as the actual suppliers will have powder cocaine.  So it makes no sense to continue this barbaric practice. http://www.drugpolicy.org/communities/race/