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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

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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 ...

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Family Struggles With Addiction And Suicide On 'Intervention'

Posted 01.31.2012 | TV

Read More: TV Canada, Suzon, Drug Addiction, Video, Canada Tv, Intervention, Crack Cocaine, Tv Replay, Reailty Tv, TV News

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...

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Student Finds Cocaine In Textbook Ordered From Amazon

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.30.2012 | College

Read More: College Students, Textbooks, College Junior, College Textbook, College, Crack Cocaine, Used Textbook, Cocaine, College News

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...

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

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

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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...

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Woman Calls Cops On Dealer For Selling Her Sugar

Posted 01.15.2012 | Crime

Read More: Sugar Instead of Crack Cocaine, Dumb Crime, Stupid Criminals, Mug Shots, Crack Cocaine, Suzanne Basham, Suzanne Basham Springfield Missouri, Suzanne Basham Crack Cocaine, Suzanne Basham Called Cops Sugar Instead of Cocaine, Video, Crime News

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...

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Ron Paul Was Right In CIA Conspiracy Theory

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.30.2011 | Politics

Read More: Iran-Contra, Gary Webb, Video, Cia Cocaine, Cia, 2012 Election, Crack Cocaine, Ron Paul, Elections 2012, Cia Drugs, Ron Paul 2012, Contras, Politics News

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

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

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 02.07.2012 | Black Voices

Read More: New-Jack-City, Crack Cocaine, Death-of-the-80s, Black Voices News

(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 ...

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Crack Cocaine Program In Brazil Gets $2 Billion Investment

AP | Posted 12.07.2011 | World

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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...

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

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

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

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Drug Sentencing Reforms Halt Decades of Prison Population Growth

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

Read More: Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Sentencing, Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Prison, Incarceration Rates, Crack Cocaine, The Docket, Drug Crimes, Politics News

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

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Kindergartener Brings Crack Pipe To Show And Tell

Posted 11.20.2011 | Crime

Read More: Video, Show and Tell, Crack Cocaine, Michelle Cheatham, Crack Pipe Show and Tell, Michelle Marie Cheatham, Kindergarten, Crime News

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...

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

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

Read More: Video, War on Drugs, Vh1 Documentary, Planet Rock, Ice T, Crack Cocaine, Planet-Rock-the-Story-of-Hip-Hop-and-the-Crack-Generation, Black Voices News

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. ...

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

Elon James White | Posted 08.31.2011 | Comedy

Read More: War on Drugs, African American Prison Population, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Drug Sentencing Disparity, Drug Sentencing, Prison, Crack Cocaine, African-Americans-Prison, Video, Comedy News

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The Power Of Futile Speeches

Mark Osler | Posted 08.17.2011 | Impact

Read More: Anna Diggs Taylor, Supreme Court, Andrew Densemo, Crack Cocaine, Speeches, Public Defender, U.S. Supreme Court, Detroit, Impact News

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.

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

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 08.02.2011 | Politics

Read More: Unfair Sentencing, Racial Disparities Prison Sentences, Drug Sentencing, Prison Sentence, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Cocaine, Crack Sentencing, Minorities in Prison, Eric Holder, Fair Sentencing Act, Politics News

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.

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New Crack Cocaine Laws May Apply To Old Cases

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 07.31.2011 | Politics

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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 ...

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Ice Cream Parlor Owner Arrested On Suspicion Of Selling Crack

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

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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...

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

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Needle Exchange, Drug Policy Alliance, Ronald Reagan, Marijuana, Crack Cocaine, Drug War, War on Drugs, Ronald Reagan Birthday, DARE Program, Mandatory Minimums, Prohibition, Politics News

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.

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The Moral Urgency of Crack Retroactivity

Julie Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Mandatory Sentencing, Martin Luther King, Sentencing Reform, Mandatory Minimums, Crack Cocaine, Politics News

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.

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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

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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...

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Ending the Drug War: 8 Top Stories of 2010

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Marijuana, Drug Policy Alliance, California-Marijuana-Legalization, Drug War, President Obama, Drug Czar, War on Drugs, Crack Cocaine, Naacp, Media News

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.

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Teachers Find Drugs In Boston Preschooler's Shoe

AP | Posted 08.29.2011 | Education

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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...

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

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Smuggling, Drug Smugglers, Ecstasy, Giant Squid, Crack Cocaine, Illegal Immigrants, Elmo, Viagra, Fbi, Hezbollah, Heroin, Dea, Beans, Slidepollajax, Cocaine, World News

I 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.

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12-Year-Old Busted for Selling Crack!

Cheryl Wills | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Nypd, Arverne, Juvenile, Empire State Building, New York City, Crack Cocaine, Azie Faison, Wtc Mosque, Queens New York, Terrie Williams, Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler, Rockaway, Mother Teresa, Agyei Tyehimba, Black Pain, New York News

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.

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Cracks in the System Remain Despite Landmark Cocaine Sentencing Reform

Hamedah Hasan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Drugs, Aclu, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Fair Sentencing Act, Crack Cocaine, Cocaine, Politics News

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.

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