Sentences with phrase «crack cocaine penalties»
After 24 years on the books, 15 years of trying, 7 Congresses, 10 hearings, three Sentencing Commission reports, and 75,000 defendants sentenced... today, the U.S. Senate voted — unanimously — to make crack cocaine penalties fairer...
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Some states have decriminalized marijuana possession and turned it into a simple violation (like a traffic ticket), while possession of crack and cocaine used to have the strictest penalties in most states.
In South Carolina, if you are in possession of one or more grams of methamphetamine or cocaine base («crack»), you will be charged with distribution of crack rather than possession, which carries much stiffer penalties.
(1) The current quantity - based penalties overstate the relative harmfulness of crack cocaine compared to powder cocaine.
(3) The current quantity - based penalties overstate the seriousness of most crack cocaine offenses and fail to provide adequate proportionality.