Um, guys, I smoked crack
But, to be serious for a minute, this is excellent news. For twenty years the federal drug sentencing guidelines (which have up until recently been mandatory) have treated crack cocaine far more harshly than powder cocaine. Rich, young white people (e.g. the children of Congressmen) use powder cocaine, poor people (e.g. unemployed black men) use crack.
Of course, the Bush administration is against this. And the news doesn't help people who were sentenced to the "mandatory minimum" sentence required by Congress. So there's a long way to go yet.
