DARE Generation Diary - 24 Aug 2010
Students for Sensible Drug Policy is an international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact drug abuse has on our communities, but who also know that the War on Drugs is failing our generation and our society. DARE Generation diary is the blog updated frequently to keep you up to date with the latest news.

How do you think the drug war will end?

When it comes to ending the drug war, what's your theory of the pace of change: fast, slow, gradual, or revolutionary?
Recent evidence from U.S. courts and the U.S. Congress suggests that the drug war is ending.

But that it's ending in a piecemeal, or gradual, fashion.

Consider the recent example of the U.S. Congress "narrowing" -- a term used by the New York Times in its article -- the disparities for crack and powder cocaine possession. Under previous sentencing guidelines from 1986 threshold levels for powder cocaine possession were one hundred times higher than for crack cocaine. The new guidelines just signed into law by President Obama elevate the thresholds for crack cocaine. At least two generations of Black men have been treated unfairly by courts and prosecutors.

The previous guidelines came from the mid-1980s and have been seen as a motor for black and Latino overincarceration.
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