Tom Cotton calls to end disparity between crack and powder cocaine
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« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2021, 09:36:27 AM »

Right in the wrong direction Tom
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« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2021, 10:05:45 AM »

Tom Cotton seems to want for us to return to the regressive War on Drugs policies of the 1980s and 1990s.
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« Reply #27 on: June 23, 2021, 10:15:08 AM »
« Edited: June 23, 2021, 12:04:14 PM by GP270watch »

This is disingenuous and racist because prosecutions and law enforcement operations are at the discretion of people who will not target powder cocaine users from affluent backgrounds. So Tom Cotton is just talking a bunch of nonsense and doesn't understand that the War on Drugs is not just the statuary laws on the books but the entire way the system uses those laws on the books to disproportionately target African Americans.

Oh he understands, he just doesn't care

 I agree that's why I said it was disingenuous.
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« Reply #28 on: June 23, 2021, 10:56:56 AM »

I knew this would be his take before I clicked the link.
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« Reply #29 on: June 23, 2021, 11:14:44 AM »

Well the powdered version is whiter, so this makes sense.
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« Reply #30 on: June 23, 2021, 02:17:50 PM »

Came here to echo this sentiment. Then I read the actual tweet …

Cotton shouldn’t surprise me in this way and I’m ashamed to say that I thought this as well. Should’ve know that he’d be in favor of increasing penalties.
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