Here is some more about the crack vs opioid epidemic
"But as many have noted, the response to the opioid crisis is different than it was to the crack epidemic. For starters, Fears said, crack wasn’t called an epidemic at the time. Now, there were references to a “crack epidemic” in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times in 1986, and the Baltimore Sun in 1990, but the sentiment remains, that it wasn’t seen as an emergency in the same way today’s opioid crisis is.
The government responded to crack by ramping up its so-called war on drugs, which began under former President Richard Nixon in 1971. The most infamous of these measures was the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, signed into law by former President Ronald Regan, which implemented a 100-to-one minimum sentencing ratio between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. The minimum sentence for possession of crack, largely associated with African-Americans, was five years"
"Today’s opioid crisis vs. the crack epidemic of the 1980s - Indianapolis Recorder"
"I remember another drug epidemic that began in the 1980s. Back then, we weren't so sensitive about what we called people who used crack cocaine. Families were torn apart at that time, too. Lives were cut short and a wealth of potential was lost on a generation of African-American youths.
But no one seemed to care about those urban "crackheads." Unlike the heroin addicts creating today's opioid epidemic — which has had a disproportionate impact on white suburbanites and rural areas — black crack addicts were dispensable. To many politicians, they belonged in jail."
"Race, the crack epidemic and the effect on today's opioid crisis - Chicago Tribune"
Of course the president who started reforming criminal justice (First step) is the big evil mango mussolini and we are big dumbs because we didnt want the same old shit bag politicains who are responsible for all the shit you guys bitch about. And Admin cant even own what he supports. He blames other people.
Fucking idiots.