Cocaine Wars
Description
It takes 500 grams of powder cocaine to receive the same sentence that is meted out for possession of only five grams of crack cocaine. Yet five grams of crack is a user's dose, while 500 grams of cocaine is a dealer's supply. Why a 100-to-1 disparity? In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Don Dahler explore how the panic inspired by crack cocaine in the 1980s has left a legacy of crowded jails with overwhelmingly African-American populations. Twenty years after crack was declared a menace to society, should lawmakers and courts reassess the penalties for this drug?
Runtime
22 min
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2002
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102638&xtid=30829
Similar Films
The Scary Guy
Cocaine unwrapped
A Brooklyn family tale
Urban questions. Nairobi, Kenya. II
Law and war in rural Kenya
Cheo-yong
Pitr̥, putra, aura dharmayuddha. Father, son and holy war. Hero pharmacy. Hīro phārmesī
Moyers & Company. The Sandy Hook Promise
The world about us. Prisoners of paradise
60 minutes. Hussein home movies
Injury Prevention Research
Bloody faces of terrorism
Pitr̥, putra, aura dharmayuddha. Father, son and holy war. Trial by fire. Agniparīkshā
It's not okay. Speaking out against youth violence
Men advocates against gender-based violence