Why do the law makers make such a big deal about people who smoke crack cocaine?

i think the law enforcemment should spend less time with drugs and blinker tickets and pay more attention to murders and other people who inflict injuries upon others!

Crack cocaine is a derivative of cocaine. Both of them are dangerous and highly addictive. Crack cocaine, however, has a far greater stigma because when it emerged it was considered the drug of inner city blacks while cocaine was the drug of movie stars. Even now there is a discrepancy in how the two drugs and their addicts are treated both by the law and society.

The issue that you are pointing to is an issue surrounding all drugs, particularly illegal ones. If someone commits are crime under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a lawyer can argue that he or she was mentally incapacitated at the time. A crime requires both mens rea (guilty mind) and actus rea (guilty act). If someone is incapable of making coherant decisions because they are drunk or high then they cannot have a mens rea. This has been problematic in the case of drunk drivers who have traditionally receieved more lenient sentences because they were drunk and therefore less responsible for their actions, though this has changed in recent years

My sister is a crack ho...literally. That stuff is horrible. It rots your brain, rots your teeth and destroys lives. Not just the person doing it, but all the people around them suffer. It ages you unbelievably quick. Also, she has lost everything. Her apartment, her belongings....her friends and most of her family. She's in her late 40's and has absolutely nothing. Most of the time, she crashes at peoples houses and she's been known to sleep in a tent for weeks on end. She also isn't permitted to see her grandchildren and all of her siblings avoid her.

The last time I talked to her was about 18 months ago. She called asking for money she says I owed her. I did owe her $100 from when she was clean and I was a single mom, but shortly after she started using and I wasn't about to give her the money so she could spend it on drugs. I have the money in my savings account and if she ever gets clean, I will give it to her. Anyway, she's stolen so much from me. Jewelry, clothing, money. I really don't feel I owe her anything, but I'm willing to overlook it if she cleans up her act. When I told her no, she couldn't have it, she called me every name under the sun. It wasn't pretty.

So, in short, it destroys lives, your health, your relationship with family and friends........it should never be 'legal'.

It's horrible, too, because she is 14 years older than me and was like a mom when I was growing up. We had always been close and the truth is, I miss her. A lot. But she isn't the same person and the person she has become.....well, frankly, I don't need 'that' person in my life.

Society do no longer care government cares ya can not tax what ya can not administration. Gateway drug my ars, Ozzy made me reason he's the devil, do no longer take a seat on chilly cement or you will get the piles, do no longer eat the yellow snow, do no longer run with scissors, My mom is 80 yrs previous and he or she smokes weed to ease the soreness and trauma of breast maximum cancers. I even have yet to work out her with a Hendrix cd and a bag of empty chips nor does she seek for out any meth or coke, to no longer my understanding besides if she does cruz 2nd ave searching for rock i'll gladly recant my answer and admit my lack of understanding in this remember

Because people act in dangerous ways when they are doing crack, and when the crack wears off it is so addictive that the user, who is still out of his/her mind, will do anything to get more of it, so even when they are not fully high, they are motivated to do anything for a quick dollar, no matter how dangerous or destructive it is, just to get more. The addiction increases as the usage increases, so it isn't very long before someone is completely out of control.

When people are out of control and addicted they are a harm to society. That harm is so bad that our country draws the line by making it not just frowned upon, but illegal. That way we can stop people early on in their behaviour before they actually commit crimes or horrible acts of harm upon other people.

Some people say that the penalties for crack shouldn't be stronger than the penalties for powdered cocaine because it's results in harsher penalties for African Americans. But having had friends who have done both, I have to agree with the sentencing differential. Crack destroys people, just destroys them, and as it does so, it destroys entire communities, entire cities. Powdered coke ain't great, but it's not nearly as bad as crack: I've watched friends who were fine when they were snorting lose everything and in one case die after they graduated to crack, and my own brother's freebasing began a downward spiral that led to his death as well.

If natural Cocaine were legal, the use of Crack would drop to nothing. The reason it is popular is because Cocaine IS illegal, and Crack is pretty easy to make.

Highly addictive drugs lead to alot of 'collateral damage' because of the combination of being addictive and expensive. Lots of addicts end up in the position of needing a fix and not having any money. In that case, what do they do? They rob stores, steal cars, begin selling or trafficking drugs, etc etc in order to get money for drugs.

What if I am in possession of 10 pounds of the stuff? There is no real reason to have this stuff. Perhaps you needed be in jail for years and yeaers, but it is wrong to possess

Crack is one of the most destructive drugs out there. In a very short period of time it breaks a person down, and in many cases kills them.

Does Amy Winehouse ring a bell? She's got emphasema and she's only 24 years old.