Sentences with phrase «with crack cocaine»

First, thousands of defendants charged with crack cocaine offenses will continue to face irrationally long sentences.

Jeremy Renner delivers an Oscar - quality performance in this true tale recounting the valiant effort of an intrepid journalist to expose the CIA's role in infesting inner city neighborhoods across the country with crack cocaine.

«It worked in the 1970's with heroin; it worked in the early 1990's with crack cocaine, and it will work now if we're truly committed to it.»

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams compares today's opioid epidemic with the crack cocaine scourge of the 1980s.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

The country has a festering problem with crack cocaine addiction, because the Colombian couriers distribute the drug as salary to their Belizean assistants, who sell it for a relative pittance on the streets of Belize City.

Not exact matches

It should be noted, however, that while methadone is effective in dealing with heroin addiction, it does not work with cocaine or crack.

Eight of the prisoners I talked with were there for marijuana charges, two for crack cocaine.

«I used Dagoba organic 87 % cacao chocolate (if you like dark chocolate, this stuff might as well be crack - cocaine), coconut oil, and cashew butter (pretty sure we discussed this at your birthday party, but I make my own with roasted cashews, agave nectar, and either coconut or safflower oil depending on what I have at the time).

The egg Jenna cracks with one expert hand is actually a sliced peach with corn syrup inside a plastic Easter egg (raw egg onstage = not sanitary); the melted chocolate is mixed with oil to pour smoothly and sensually; whipped cream pies are instead topped with buttercream so they won't melt under stage lights; and the flour they blow onto the crowd to end the recipe dream sequences is inositol, a powdered form of vitamin D that movie prop managers use to fake cocaine.

As New York has done to combat previous public health crises including crack / cocaine, HIV / AIDS, and nicotine and cigarette smoking, we need a comprehensive plan coupled with a commitment of resources that matches the magnitude of the problem.»

Police accused Underwood of possessing crack cocaine at the time of his arrest, and charged him with two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Webb is accused of selling heroin; Peterson is accused of possessing cocaine and crack with the intent to sell.

Houtman previously admitted he was a member of the Jungle Junkies gang and conspired with others to sell crack cocaine.

Brun is charged with possession of 28 grams of crack cocaine, which carries a five year minimum sentence and a maximum of 28 years.

The defendants — who range in age from 18 to 56 — were targeted during pre-dawn raids early today and are charged with selling powdered and crack cocaine, heroin and highly addictive prescription pharmaceuticals to undercover police officers on dozens of occasions since last November.

Dicky was himself a leading boxer, felled by crack cocaine and an unfortunate encounter with Sugar Ray Leonard.

Straight Outta Compton Film Review by Kam Williams Gritty Raptrospective Chronicles Rise and Demise of Legendary Gangsta» Group Back in the Eighties, the CIA began orchestrating the introduction of crack - cocaine to African - American communities all across America, starting with the South Central L.A.. By the middle of the decade, the epidemic had turned Compton into a godforsaken wasteland rife with drug addiction and crime.

I was shocked and dismayed to find that so many of the young men I grew up with had succumbed to the crack cocaine trade and were either addicted to it or selling it, died or were killed for it, or were in jail because of it.

Woodrell's Ozark tale focuses on 16 - year - old Ree Dolly, who dreams of joining the army to get away from her crack - cocaine - dealing family but who instead gets caught in the crossfire when her father jumps bail, leaving her stuck with two younger brothers, facing the loss of their house, and in dangerous conflict with her hostile relatives.

I've seen some reviewers come up with the label of «crack - tastic» for books that are like crack cocaine — bad but irresistible.

Once this crack cocaine like dry food was eliminated entirely and replaced with wet canned food and supplements were introduced to provide renal / enteric support, everything changed for all these affected cats.

We don't want to have a «crack cocaine» problem with gaming and it's a problem that the games industry needs to find a solution to soon.

With all the recent controversy surrounding Loot Boxes, Craig looks into the link between loot boxes and fixed odds betting terminals, with the latter often described as the «crack cocaine» of gamblWith all the recent controversy surrounding Loot Boxes, Craig looks into the link between loot boxes and fixed odds betting terminals, with the latter often described as the «crack cocaine» of gamblwith the latter often described as the «crack cocaine» of gambling.

Among these new works is an environmental installation with sound entitled Pinocchio Is On Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present (with cultural references that include the rise of HIV and crack cocaine during the 1980s, gangster rap, and mega-churches, along with aspects of the artist's own biography).

Add to that, StevM making references to «the resulting Yamal chronology with its enormous HS blade was like crack cocaine for paleoclimatologists».

This presents a credibility problem in the government's efforts to educate children about the real dangers associated with drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine, a far more important job of the ONDCP and DEA.

She had met the two defendants and had engaged in «crack cocaine» and sexual relations with these men.

Every day, someone tries to buy crack cocaine with Monopoly money and gets beaten up.

Succinctly stated, Kimbrough held that «district courts are entitled to reject and vary categorically from the crack - cocaine Guidelines based on a policy disagreement with those Guidelines.»

Kimbrough instead expressly reserved the question as to whether a district court could categorically vary from the Guideline range based solely upon a policy disagreement with the Commission in an area other than the crack - cocaine disparity.

If you have been charged with distribution of crack cocaine, or any other drug crime, it is important that you contact a South Carolina Drug Crimes Attorney.

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.

Client charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking crack cocaine had his charges withdrawn in Superior Court in Brampton following a three day preliminary inquiry and questioning of the police officers involved in the search.

I have a sentencing set with a client who is charged with possession of both crack cocaine and MDMA and I wanted to show the Judge essentially that my client's guidelines will have dropped based upon these new amendments and argue for a downward variance.

«While a handful of district courts, following Booker, have taken it upon themselves to lower guideline ranges for crack offenses based on a perceived unfairness in comparison with sentencing for powder cocaine crimes, this is plainly beyond judicial authority, and the appellate courts to address the matter have unanimously rejected this result.

Client charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking after a random traffic stop and a vehicle search revealed pre-packaged «rock» or «crack» cocaine; quantities of cash; scales; cell phones and numerous weapons.

My visual entertainment swung between two extremes over the weekend: first The Wolf Of Wall Street, with Leonardo Di Caprio snorting cocaine out of a hooker's butt crack, then Austenland, with Kerri Russell visiting a Jane Austen theme park in search of her real - life Mr Darcy.