The Drug War In America

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were a glut on the labor market so in a effort to remove these worker from the work force this ordnance was passed. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was another law that was inacted for the same proposes. The first federal drug control law passed was the District of Columbia Pharmacy Act. This act regulated narcotics. Cocaine based product’s were being sold in many forms, such as soft drinks, cough medicine, and the coca crop was cultivated in many stated. The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 which was written as a tax law and appeared to be a means of gathering information, “requiring everyone in the drug trade to purchase a license and keep precise records” when in reality it was an act that would make it illegal for a physician to prescribe narcotics to addicts. This caused the addicts to flock to hospitals and sanatoriums. There was and increases in crime as addicts were forced to desperate efforts to obtain drugs and illicit drug trafficking became a profitable ...

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in jail, on parole, or on probation”. (www.whitehouse) This is due to the fact that there are stricter mandatory sentences for crack cocaine. Possession of 5 grams or more, worth about $ 125 on the street, is a five-year mandatory term in prison. This drug is more likely found on the black street dealer. Possession of $500 grams of powder cocaine, worth about $50,000, would get you the same sentence. Whites more often use powder cocaine. A small amount of marijuana or five grams of crack is just as likely to be for ones own personal use and even thought drugs are a bad choice a person should not go to jail for just doing drugs. (Gov. Johnson) The black prison population has ...

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