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Man In Court For Crack Pipe Possession Allegedly Caught With Crack Pipe

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.08.2012 | Weird News

This guy didn't crack such a big smile in his second booking photo for the same crime. Cops said that Florida man, 32-year-old Stanley Ramos, was ...

Family Struggles With Addiction And Suicide On 'Intervention'

Posted 01.31.2012 | TV

Only a teenager, Bradley has watched his mother Suzon go from being a classic modern-day soccer mom to a crack addict selling prescription drugs to pa...

Student Finds Cocaine In Textbook Ordered From Amazon

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.30.2012 | College

This gives a whole new meaning to "cracking" open a book. Sophia Stockton, a college junior in Olathe, Kan., got quite a surprise when she opened t...

Trymaine Lee

Ex-Cocaine Kinigpin 'Freeway' Rick Ross Aims To Make Amends After Prison

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 01.29.2012 | Black Voices

Nearly every night that "Freeway" Rick Ross spent in prison, the same nightmare filled his head: He and his crew are sitting around a table piled h...

Woman Calls Cops On Dealer For Selling Her Sugar

Posted 01.15.2012 | Crime

Don't you just hate it when you don't get what you paid for? Suzanne Basham, 47, was none too pleased to discover the crack cocaine she bought was...

Ryan Grim

Ron Paul Was Right In CIA Conspiracy Theory

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.30.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- According to a former aide, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has long been drawn toward conspiracy theories. Eric Dondero, who...

Mourning In America (The Crack of the Dawn of the Dead)

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 02.07.2012 | Black Voices

Barry Michael Cooper

(This is an essay excerpt from my anthology of investigative journalism and essays titled, "Hooked On The American Dream-Vol.1:New Jack City Eats Its ...

Crack Cocaine Program In Brazil Gets $2 Billion Investment

AP | Posted 12.07.2011 | World

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The Brazilian government says it will invest more than $2 billion to curb the spread of crack cocaine in Latin America's biggest c...

Change In Crack Sentencing Means 12,000 Inmates To Be Released

AP | JESSICA GRESKO and JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 01.01.2012 | Crime

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Antwain Black was facing a few more years in Leavenworth for dealing crack. But on Tuesday, he returned home to Illinois, a ...

John Rudolf

Drug Sentencing Reforms Halt Decades of Prison Population Growth

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

NEW YORK -- In 1986, as the crack cocaine epidemic ravaged America's inner cities, a Democratic Congress passed legislation dictating harsh mandatory ...

Kindergartener Brings Crack Pipe To Show And Tell

Posted 11.20.2011 | Crime

Trying to impress your classmates with bizarre and surprising show-and-tell items is fine -- some might say it's even part of growing up. But one Miss...

Trymaine Lee

Ice-T: Mad About The War And 'Muhf***ers' On Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 11.15.2011 | Black Voices

Editor's Note: The following interview contains explicit language that some readers might find offensive. By now we should all know Ice-T's story. ...

ACLU & Elon James White: Just Say NO to the War On Drugs

Elon James White | Posted 08.31.2011 | Comedy

Elon James White

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The Power Of Futile Speeches

Mark Osler | Posted 08.17.2011 | Impact

Mark Osler

Don't worry about the size of your audience; someone like me might be listening. Minds are more open than you might think, and sometimes even the prosecutor gets it.

Sentencing Disparity On Its Way Out -- And It's About Time

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 08.02.2011 | Politics

Rev. Al Sharpton

Somewhere in a U.S. prison today, a young Black man sits behind bars counting down the days till he sees freedom. He has become hardened and likely more dangerous while his White cellmate was released years prior for virtually the same crime.

New Crack Cocaine Laws May Apply To Old Cases

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 07.31.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A year ago, a drug dealer caught with 50 grams of crack cocaine faced a mandatory 10 years in federal prison. Today, new rules cut ...

Ice Cream Parlor Owner Arrested On Suspicion Of Selling Crack

The Huffington Post | Tim Stenovec | Posted 07.04.2011 | New York

An ice cream parlor in a suburb of New York City has been shuttered after authorities raided it on suspicion that the owner was using it to manufactur...

Reagan Turns 100: Media Fawning Ignores His Disastrous "War on Drugs"!

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Tony Newman

It's interesting that in all of the press I've read so far celebrating Ronald Reagan, I have not seen one word about his radical escalation of the drug war -- and the devastating effects that had on our society.

The Moral Urgency of Crack Retroactivity

Julie Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Julie Stewart

President Obama has reformed what many considered the most racially discriminatory sentencing policy in federal law. Now, he should do what is right -- apply the reform retroactively to all offenders.

Security Guard At Colorado Coalition For The Homeless Busted For Selling Crack On The Job

Face the State | Jared Jacang Maher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

A security guard for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is facing felony drug charges for allegedly selling crack, while he was on the job, to th...

Ending the Drug War: 8 Top Stories of 2010

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Tony Newman

I feel discouraged about many things happening in our country. But steps towards ending the war on drugs continues to bring me hope and cautious optimism.

Teachers Find Drugs In Boston Preschooler's Shoe

AP | Posted 08.29.2011 | Education

BOSTON -- After a 3-year-old Boston girl complained that her foot hurt, her preschool teacher took off her sneaker and found 17 small plastic bags con...

The 10 Most Innovative Smuggling Schemes Foiled by the Feds (PHOTOS)

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Keith Thomson

2010-10-20-drugs.jpgI recently interviewed FBI agents who caught a couple smuggling funds to Hezbollah. The couple's method astonished me. As smuggling goes, however, it was pedestrian, compared to the following.

12-Year-Old Busted for Selling Crack!

Cheryl Wills | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Cheryl Wills

A 12-year-old girl was arrested for selling crack. Where's the outrage? Should her arrest become par for the course, we are all in trouble. There are not enough jails to house a generation of kids who turn to a life of crime before they reach puberty.

Cracks in the System Remain Despite Landmark Cocaine Sentencing Reform

Hamedah Hasan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Hamedah Hasan

The president can exercise his executive clemency power to right historical wrongs by commuting the remaining sentences of those of us who have fallen through the cracks. I hope he does.