quoted 5 lines On Tue, 8 May 2001, Joshua Brown wrote:>On Tue, 8 May 2001, Joshua Brown wrote:
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>> For an example of a racist policy, crack carries about 10 times the prison
>> sentence of cocaine, even though they are the same molecule... poor blacks
>> tend to smoke crack and rich white kids tend to snort cocaine...
I hate to fuel the flames but crack is also about ten times as powerful than coke.
It's also much more addictive.
Those laws(rockefeller laws, mandatory minimums) discriminate by economics
and ignorance rather than race. White boys who smoke crack get the same sentences as black boys.
dealing LSD carries a 25 year mandatory minimum while dealing shrooms or X(until recently)
carried a much smaller sentence.
Also the newer the drug the faster it becomes illegal, and depending on when it comes out(what the political climate is like) the stiffer the sentence.
e.g. cocaine was legal for like 30 years, crack, X, etc more like a week.
The whole "prison industrial complex as social control" thing is so fucking confusing.
it costs $50,000 to build ONE 6x9 prison cell. thats more $$$$$ per sq foot than an apartment
on central park west.
frankly this whole thread is beginning to make my brain hurt.
Who gives a fuck if the Aphex Twin is a "sell out"?
The only people who care enough about shit like this
to whine about it are the people who think THEY'RE sellouts
if they still listen to the his albums.
sad, sad, sad.
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