2 chapters across the catalog
A fact-check of Joe Biden's record reveals his role as a primary architect of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. This legislation established the mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine that Biden later claimed to oppose. The discussion explains how the law was designed to trigger five-year sentences for just five grams of crack, disproportionately affecting low-level street dealers.
The discussion centers on the 100-to-1 sentencing ratio established in 1986, where one gram of crack was legally equivalent to 100 grams of powder cocaine. Mo points out the irony that crack contains less actual cocaine than the powder version. They credit Barack Obama for the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity to 18-to-1, though they argue the underlying "scam" remains.
