The Disparities between Crack and Powder Cocaine
Coca is a leafed plant that grows in the eastern slopes of the Andes. Cocaine is the world's most powerful stimulant made naturally. This plant has been used be Indians for at least 5000 years. Traditionally, the leaves of the coca plant have been chewed for social, mystical, medicinal and religious purposes. Columbia is the lead producer of cocaine they supply eighty percent of the world's cocaine (Coca and cocaine). The United States has faced a major problem with the illegal drug and has decided on different sentencing guides for cocaine claiming that crack is more addictive than powder. There is several different ways to …show more content…
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Crack cocaine is easily made and cheaper to get. Crack cocaine is more damaging to the health and safety of others. Crack cocaine accounts for more crime then powder cocaine. Crack cocaine puts more people in the hospital and is the producer of more violent crimes. There is one point to make here about crack cocaine and powder cocaine if they stop the importation of the powder form there will not be the crack form. This goes to show that maybe powder does cause more trouble than crack to start with. Or you can look at it another way if people would quit using illegal drugs they would be no sentencing disparities to challenge. As long as the Government has to step in to regulate the consumption of the illegal drugs in the United States there will always be someone fighting to say they are unfair in there practices. No one on drugs likes to admit the government may be right that is saying there are wrong in the life style the have chosen to live. So fair or not fair at least the Government has tried to make an effort to stop the drug abuse trend in the United