The House voted to "reduce the disparity in the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine," altering a sentencing standard that has long been considered racist by critics. The new law will reduce sentencing disparities from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1.
I wonder why they didn't go all the way to a 1-to-1 ratio? Shouldn't the penalty be absolutely the same for abuse of crack vs. powder cocaine? What say u?
