Playball40
Veteran Member
I have always thought it needs to be dealt with compassionately. But you're right. Cocaine was the rich man's addiction, but somehow crack <cheaper smokable version of cocaine> had stiffer penalties than powder cocaine.
I'm sure at least 20 people have beaten me to it by now...
But I love how rich and middle class drug addicts are "victims" of an "epidemic" but poor people in the ghettos and the trailer parks are enemy combatants in the "war on drugs."
It's actually a little bit refreshing in a way... our knee-jerk reaction is to try and shoot our way out all our problems, unless the problem affects us PERSONALLY, and then suddenly we expect people to deal with us with compassion and sensitivity.