Sentence examples for cocaine Powder from inspiring English sources

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Selling a large quantity of diluted cocaine powder, or a small quantity of pure cocaine?

Later, a friend instructed Sorkin how to cook cocaine powder with baking soda and water, stick it in a pipe and smoke it.

Ten years ago, I was almost exclusively treating problems related to five substances: heroin, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, benzodiazepine and, of course, alcohol.

The federal law that mandates harsher prison terms for people arrested with crack cocaine than for those caught with cocaine powder is scientifically and morally indefensible.

In his sworn statement requesting the search warrant Mr. Quinones said that he saw "hundreds of glass crack pipes" at the warehouse and "thousands" of mechanical devices known as "bullets" that are used to dispense cocaine powder during inhaling.

The cocaine powder, with a street value of $2.7 billion, United States law enforcement estimated, was found in containers on a ship that arrived in late October from Colombia.

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In 2010 Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act to reduce the discrepancy between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentences in future cases.

Senior Justice Department officials said today that disparities between sentences for distributing crack cocaine and powder cocaine were far smaller than generally believed and that they would oppose any changes in the law to reduce prison terms for crack offenses.

Mr. Luna, who was black, was also uncomfortable with the rigidity of sentencing rules that required stiffer penalties for possession of crack cocaine than powder cocaine, a rule some critics say is unfair to blacks, Judge Davis said.

Since being elected to the United States Senate in 2004, Mr. Obama has helped sponsor legislation intended to reduce the disparity in prison sentences for crack cocaine versus powder cocaine because of his concern that existing laws unfairly discriminate against ethnic minorities.

Someone with the identical amount of cocaine in powder form is guilty of a misdemeanor, unlikely to put him in jail.

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