H.R.460 - Crack-Cocaine Equitable Sentencing Act of 2007 Sponsor: Charles Rangel / 110th Congress

Title
110th Congress - To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate certain mandatory minimum penalties relating to crack cocaine offenses. hidemore...
Summary
This bill eliminates certain mandatory sentencing minimums for possession, use, and trade of crack-cocaine. (by MAPLight.org)
Status
The bill has been introduced.

This bill has not been voted on.

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New bill would put an end to larger punishments against low-income cocaine users by Megan Luecke, Mar 14, 2008 (9:10pm)

Even though powder and crack cocaine have the same physiological effects, powder cocaine is much more expensive than crack cocaine. Thus, low-income cocaine users, including racial minorities, prefer crack cocaine to powder cocaine. But the current legislation punishes crack cocaine users much more heavily than powder cocaine users, allowing the wealthy consumers of powder cocaine to possess much more cocaine without receiving as much prison time as those poor people who possess similar amounts of crack cocaine.

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