War on Drugs

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The War on Drugs, also known as the War on Poor Black People, is a misbegotten attempt to purify American youth (and adults) by putting anyone caught with any quantity of illegal drugs in jail for a long time.

One of its armaments is setting manadatory sentences for "crack" cocaine possession at roughly 100 times the length of sentences for possession of "powder" cocaine. This is because crack is popular in the poorer (and darker) neighborhoods, while the powder version is popular in suburbs and corporate boardrooms.

The result has been that the United States now has a higher percentage of its population in jail than any other country ever has.

S T U B (The Pet Goat ate it)