Buying 3 grams of cocaine in D.C. is a misdemeanor?

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11. The crack stigma is bizarre. It's the same fucking drug. It's just cocaine mixed with

an inert substance to make it solid and facilitate smoking. For this reason, a gram of crack on average actually contains less cocaine than a gram of powder cocaine (which is also mixed with inert substances so the street dealers can sell more product).

This is what makes the stricter minimum sentencing for crack cocaine as opposed to powder even more ridiculous. They're giving people more jail time based on how they choose to abuse the banned substance (snorting vs. smoking) rather than basing the sentence on the actual quantity that they're in possession of.

This would be like giving heroin addicts who shoot the drug intravenously rather than smoking it or snorting it stricter sentences.