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Congress: Senate Passes Bill to Reduce, But Not Eliminate, Crack/Powder...
The US Senate approved on a voice vote Wednesday a bill that would reduce, but not eliminate, the disparity in sentences handed down to people convicted of crack versus powder cocaine charges. The bill...
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Congress Acts to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity (FEATURE)
The US House of Representatives Wednesday approved a bill, SB 1789, that addresses one of the most glaring injustices of the American drug war: the 100:1 disparity in sentencing between federal crack...
View ArticleMaine Police Chief Wants Cocaine Misdemeanors to Be Felonies
Portland, Maine, Police Chief James Craig is pushing to increase some crack and powder cocaine offenses from misdemeanors to felonies, but he isn't exactly receiving a warm reception from lawmakers...
View ArticleReducing Penalties for Crack and Peyote...But When Marijuana? (Opinion)
The Marijuana Policy Project's executive director, Rob Kampia, reflects on advocating changes in marijuana policy in light of reductions in penalties with regard to crack cocaine and peyote. He says...
View ArticleNew Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Crack Cocaine Now in Effect
New federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect Monday, a week after the US Sentencing Commission promulgated them. The commission acted on a temporary basis to implement...
View ArticleAlcohol More Harmful Than Heroin or Crack, British Study Finds
A study published Monday in the Lancet assessed the harms of various substances and found that alcohol caused more harm in the United Kingdom than heroin or crack cocaine. The study was done by the...
View ArticleThursday Press Teleconference: Clinton Commutation Beneficiaries Call on...
For Immediate Release: December 15, 2010 Contact: Nkechi Taifa (202-641-6605) or Tony Newman (646-335-5384)THURSDAY PRESS TELECONFERENCE: Clinton Commutation Beneficiaries Call on...
View ArticleSupreme Court Holds Crack Penalties Apply to "Cocaine Base"
In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the US Supreme Court upheld a 10-year federal prison sentence for possession of cocaine base, rejecting an appeal that harsher penalties for crack cocaine did not apply...
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Criminal Injustice -- Inside America's National Disgrace
The libertarian Reason Magazine ("free minds and free markets") has devoted its Julyread more
View ArticleFederal Crack Prisoners Will Get Sentence Cuts [FEATURE]
Thousands of inmates imprisoned on federal crack cocaine charges will be able to seek sentence reductions and early release after the US Sentencing Commission vote unanimously June 30 to make changes...
View ArticleFederal Crack Cocaine Prisoners Start Coming Home [FEATURE]
Hundreds of federal crack cocaine prisoners began walking out prison Tuesday, the first beneficiaries of a US Sentencing Commission decision to apply retroactive sentencing reductions to people already...
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The Top Ten Domestic US Drug Policy Stories of 2011 [FEATURE]
We can put 2011 to bed now, but not before looking back one last time at the good, the bad, and the ugly. It was a year of rising hopes and crushing defeats, of gaining incremental victories and...
View ArticleJacksonville Police Kill Armed Man in Drug Raid
[image:1 align:left]A Jacksonville, Florida, narcotics detective shot and killed an armed man during a drug raid aimed at arresting a small-scale crack dealer last Thursday. Juan Montrice Lawrence, 40,...
View ArticleJacksonville Cop Kills Unarmed Drug Suspect
A Jacksonville, Florida, police officer shot and killed an unarmed drug suspect during a traffic stop early last Wednesday morning when the man reached down inside his car. Davinian Darnell Williams,...
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Chronicle Book Review Essay: Two Faces of the Drug War
Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History (2012, Lyons Press, 375 pp., $24.95 HB)Operation Fly Trap: LA Gangs, Drugs, and the Law, by...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- July 18, 2014
Tens of thousands of federal drug prisoners could get out early after the US Sentencing Commission votes to make guideline reductions retroactive, the Ohio Supreme Court moves to cut some crack...
View ArticleMaine Police Chief Wants Cocaine Misdemeanors to Be Felonies
Portland, Maine, Police Chief James Craig is pushing to increase some crack and powder cocaine offenses from misdemeanors to felonies, but he isn't exactly receiving a warm reception from lawmakers...
View ArticleReducing Penalties for Crack and Peyote...But When Marijuana? (Opinion)
The Marijuana Policy Project's executive director, Rob Kampia, reflects on advocating changes in marijuana policy in light of reductions in penalties with regard to crack cocaine and peyote. He says...
View ArticleNew Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Crack Cocaine Now in Effect
New federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect Monday, a week after the US Sentencing Commission promulgated them. The commission acted on a temporary basis to implement...
View ArticleAlcohol More Harmful Than Heroin or Crack, British Study Finds
A study published Monday in the Lancet assessed the harms of various substances and found that alcohol caused more harm in the United Kingdom than heroin or crack cocaine. The study was done by the...
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