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Both substances were highly addictive. both were equally harmful. both were cocaine. but crack was cheap and cocaine was not. crack was primarily afflicting urban neighborhoods and cocaine was viewed as the party drug of well-off whites. african-americans made up 80% of those put in jill for crack offenses. despite being only 30% of crack users. add to that the insane difference in punishment, and you had a yawning discrepancy in how the legal system punished white and blk offenders. when you took office, president obama sought to eliminate that 100-1 discrepancy despite opposition from the us...
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