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Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines. Sentencing disparities among people of color, we are hear from the acting director of the white house national Drug Control Policy among other expert witnesses. Live coverage expected to start shortly here on cspan 3. The hearing will come to order. Today the senate is holding a hearing in this committee on one of the most indefensible disparities in our system of justice and the bipartisan legislation designed to eliminate it once and for all, the equal act. To start things off id like to turn to a video about the history of this disparity and the racially disparate impact its had. Americas public Enemy Number one in the United States is Drug Abuse. It is epidemic and it can kill. We must be intolerant of Drug Use and drug sellers. The Crack Problem has become a Crack Crisis and its spreading nationwide. We must be intolerant of drugs not because we want to punish Drug Users but because we care about them and want to help them. In 1996 i was sentenced to
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