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The paper discusses the differences between crack and powder cocaine, and the history of the skewed legislative sentencing policy that is essentially a product of preconceived notions of crack cocaine. The paper also talks about what demographics are getting hit hardest in this controversial topic.

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"Since the mid 1980's, Crack cocaine offenders sentenced by the federal court system are punished and sentenced harder than powder cocaine users, despite the fact that both powder and crack cocaine have similar harmful natures, just are used by different demographics. This bias is based on old data and relates to race, as black, low-income crack possessors are more often found with crack than white, Latino or other offenders. Congressional representatives and legislators are working hard to eradicate the 1 to 100 ratio, a ratio that essentially treats one gram of crack cocaine and one hundred grams of powder cocaine as the same offense."

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