[UA] One Kilo of Cocaine

[Timothy Toner]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Paul Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] One Kilo of Cocaine


> At 06:49 PM 11/17/2000 GMT, you wrote:
> >Talking about laws and drugs, I've heard many times that (quote)
> >"drugs users do more time than rapists, childs molesters and
> >murderers" in the Land of the Free. Can anyone infirm/confirm this,
> >or give me some information about that?

Here's some hard facts, first on the federal level:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778437.html

and on the state level:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778436.html

Given that most of the drug statutes are federal, it makes sense that the
feds would be incarcerating a greater percentage (in other words, a rape,
unless it were done in a federal context--in a state park, or on a military
base, or within certain set criteria), would most certainly be handled by
local, ie state authorities.  Most states are willing to kick drugs up to a
higher level, simply because a lot of the drug trade involves interstate
trafficking, creating messy jurisdictional matters, and the Feds can get a
lot more nasty when provoked.

Now when I read this, I inserted "harm" instead of "time," which is
understandable, given that I was just getting off of work, dealing with the
true victims of these so-called victimless crimes.  But since you were just
interested in the easier question to answer, there you go.


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