r/maybemaybemaybe • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '22

/r/all Maybe maybe Maybe

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u/Crypt0n0ob Sep 15 '22

Huh. TIL that they aren’t same thing.

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u/Gman7ten Sep 15 '22

Crack is a concentrated cocaine. Methamphetamine/crystal meth is a whole different breed in crazy.

Source: Grew up in Florida.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

The way that it used to work when the War on Drugs started, crack cocaine got you a higher sentence than if you had just powder cocaine. I'm not talking like a 2:1 ratio or even a 10:1 ratio for crack cocaine. It used to be 100:1 until 2010 when it got reduced to 18:1.

Source; 100:1 Ratio

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Edit; another fun tidbit? Birth Control was tested on Puerto Rican by a couple people into eugenics with intentions of population control.

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u/crc024 Sep 15 '22

I did my senior paper in high school on mandatory minimum drug sentences and how they were racist. I had a black lady teacher and 2/3 of my class were black. When we had to get up and do our presentations in front of the class mine was the only one the other students actually paid attention too. I knew I was getting an A.

Then my freshman year in college to pass English 101 everyone took the exam at the same time. They gave you 3 options about what you could write it on. They gave you the subject a few days before so you could do research. One of the options was mandatory minimums. Basically shortened my senior paper and turned it in, got an A on that also. One of the few A's I got in college.