HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fair Sentencing Act, Plano, Texas, Al-Qaeda
7 Dec 2018
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While racial minorities sparked fears over marijuana and opium, deviant youth subcultures created lsd threat. The most dangerous man in america promises a social revolution. Feared as a willful rejection of order, stability, and predictability. Parliamentary debates about medicinal effectiveness vs. destructiveness of subculture. Like most moral panics, regular users of lsd far fewer than popularly imagined, primarily leary-esque circles. 1960s link between civil disobedience, rebellion, and openness to drugs. Following concerns about vietnam vets, nixon declares wod in 1971: increased power of federal drug agencies, the severity of punishment, prison as a deterrent. Reagan"s just say no bipartisan support. Earlier, anslinger"s crackdown motivated by fears of negroes, hispanics, 1980s crack cocaine cheaper, quicker, more potent: urban gangs transformed into distribution arm of the drug trade, sparks substantial violence, 100:1 sentencing disparity between crack and power. Khalil muhammed: black drug use linked to character and poor choices, white drug use linked to socio-economic deprivation.
