Cocaine

Congress Passes Fair Sentencing Act; Lower Crack-Cocaine Disparity Heads to Obama for Signature

Here’s an incremental, but important victory for criminal justice, as the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity has shrunk: Congress has changed a quarter-century-old law that has sent tens of thousands of blacks to prison for crack cocaine convictions while giving far more lenient treatment to those, mainly whites, caught with the same amount of the drug in powder form [...]

O'Reilly to Marc Lamont Hill: "You look like a cocaine dealer"

Bill O'Reilly told Marc Lamont Hill that he looked like a "cocaine dealer." Feel bad I even noticed it. Kinda like whoever links cocaine dealers to black people in general is the real racist. Let's see what the blogs say.

 

Model arrested for drug trafficking

A Colombian model accused of leading a drug-trafficking gang that persuaded pretty young women to smuggle cocaine to Mexico was arrested Wednesday after evading Argentine police for five months.

87-year-old Fla. woman arrested for selling crack (Video)

An 87-year-old woman was arrested Thursday after she was caught on tape selling crack cocaine to an undercover deputy. And it’s not the first time the Pensacola woman has been busted for drugs.

Former sheriff, 3 others freed on bond in federal drug conspiracy case

Former Lee County sheriff, EJ Melvin, and three others charged in the federal drug conspiracy case are free on bond, according to Lexington County Detention Center records. Melvin, freed Friday on $200,000 bond, will await his trial under home detention and electronic monitoring.