Episode 492: You STILL Want A New Drug Part 2 of the Crack Epidemic

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Show Notes Episode 492: You STILL Want A New Drug

Part 2 of the Crack Epidemic

This week Host Dave Bledsoe thought he was done drinking but discovered his credit card company had (Foolishly) upped his credit limit. (This will not end well for either of them) On the show this week we deliver part two of the crack epidemic talking about all the lies told by white people to scare themselves about black people doing crack.

Along the way we find out that Dave is a little snitch. Then we dive right into a totally unnecessary lesson on the historical geography of Washington DC. (Flimsiest pretext yet for a tangent.) Then we learn how the President of the United States entrapped a high school student to sell him crack. (Every word of that is true and mostly accurate.) From there we discover how Ronald Reagan (HE’S BACK!) set the stage for the mass incarceration of two generations of Black Men. (We’re sure it was an accident.) Finally, we explain the most heinous lie of the whole damn lot of them, about moms, babies and medicine.

Our Sponsor this week is Creative Problem Solving, fixing it by making it worse. We open the show with Poppy Bush sharing his stash and close with Carson McKee who wonders if it will EVER be over?

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

The Inside Story Of The Lafayette Park Crack Bust That George H.W. Bush Used To Sell The War On Drugs

https://dcist.com/story/18/12/04/the-inside-story-of-the-lafayette-park-drug-bust-that-george-h-w-bush-used-to-sell-the-war-on-drugs/

The Disparate Treatment of Crack Cocaine and the Opioid Epidemic: Unveiling Racial Bias in Drug Policy

https://www.scu.edu/government-ethics/resources/the-disparate-treatment-of-crack-cocaine-and-the-opioid-epidemic/#:~:text=Shortly%20thereafter%2C%20policymakers%20enacted%20the,impact%20on%20the%20Black%20community.

Cracking Cocaine Myths

https://pepperdine-graphic.com/cracking-cocaine-myths/

Demographic and socioeconomic correlates of powder cocaine and crack use among high school seniors in the United States

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5066573/

Governmental efforts to address the epidemic

https://www.britannica.com/topic/crack-epidemic#ref334577

Just Blowing Smoke?

https://magazine.emory.edu/issues/2013/autumn/of-note/just-blowing-smoke/index.html

Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/booming/revisiting-the-crack-babies-epidemic-that-was-not.html

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