{"id":52,"date":"2020-05-11T22:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:37:04","slug":"the-beginnings-of-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/2020\/05\/11\/the-beginnings-of-the-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the War on Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1980&#8217;s, the rise of crack was portrayed as an &#8220;urban&#8221; or non-affluent problem. In response to this, rather than addressing &#8220;the range of economic (and social) issues plaguing increasingly marginalized inner-city neighborhoods across the country,&#8221; the Reagan administration further escalated the War on Drugs (Massaro, 373).<\/p>\n<p>However, the harshest penalties and consequences for drugs were reserved for racial minorities and the poor. For example: \u201cIn 1988, the Omnibus Anti-Drug Abuse Act expanded the law to allow for harsher criminalization of crack cocaine users. A possession of 5 g would result in a five-year minimum sentence, while powder cocaine possession [the drug of choice for more affluent individuals] for the same amount would only result in a one-year maximum sentence&#8221; (Santoro &amp; Santoro).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1980&#8217;s, the rise of crack was portrayed as an &#8220;urban&#8221; or non-affluent problem. In response to this, rather than addressing &#8220;the range of economic (and social) issues plaguing increasingly marginalized inner-city neighborhoods across the country,&#8221; the Reagan administration further escalated the War on Drugs (Massaro, 373). However, the harshest penalties and consequences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}