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In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act to reduce the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences. However, the hosts point out that the law only reduced the ratio from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, rather than eliminating it. They criticize the Congressional Black Caucus and the Obama administration for failing to achieve a 1-to-1 ratio despite having a Democratic majority.
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.
