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Crack Vs. Cocaine Laws Opinion

            The laws of crack cocaine and powder cocaine are not the same even though technically it is the same drug. There has been a lot of controversy about the results in which this difference has been achieving whether it was meant or not. .
             Statistics have shown that the harsher sentencing for crack cocaine has adversely effected black male cocaine offenders. Many people have speculated that this is a politically intended and possibly racial biased program. They say that the reason why powder cocaine has lesser penalties is because more upper class and white collar or mostly whites are the offenders. .
             An easy solution to this problem would be the complete legalization of drugs. Though I do not think our country will ever really let it happen, they should just get it over with. They are never going to stop it. If drugs are not going to be made legal, which they probably won't, legislation should be passed to try to rehabilitate or treat people who are addicted instead of sending them to prison; and most people who use drugs are not addicted and using experimentally or very rarely for various abstract social or relieving purposes. .
             Another solution could be to make the penalties the same, but even in this context I myself feel that crack is much worse a drug and should hold higher penalties. It is one of the few drugs I feel which should remain illegal while others are legalized.
            


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