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In 2010, lawmakers increased the amount of crack cocaine needed to trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence from 50 grams to 280 grams. The case involved the interplay of three laws passed by Congress: Reagan-era drug statutes, which created three tiers of sentencing based on the amount of drugs involved, a 2010 law intended to reduce penalties for crack cocaine and the 2018 First Step Act. He filed suit after the 2018 law passed seeking to reduce his sentence. Tarahrick Terry pleaded guilty to possessing a small amount of crack cocaine in 2008 – about 3.9 grams – and was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison. More: Senate passes First Step Act with push from criminal justice groups More: Supreme Court skeptical of applying Trump-era criminal justice law retroactively

But its language was unclear on whether certain low-level offenders could seek retroactive sentence reductions, two lower courts held, setting up a situation where those convicted of more serious crimes may wind up with a more lenient punishment. The First Step Act eased tough-on-crime policies that swelled prison populations and had a disproportionate impact on African American communities.

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a concurring opinion in which she agreed with most of the court's reasoning but described the outcome as "no small injustice" and encouraged Congress to change the law to address similar situations. And it sparked a heated debate between one of the high court's leading conservative voices and one of its leading liberals over the history of drug sentencing and whether Congress should "right this injustice" – despite the fact that all nine justices agreed on the outcome in the case.Īssociate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for the court. Though the question in the case was narrow, it arrived as bipartisan majorities in Congress have sought to rethink long sentences for relatively small amounts of drugs. WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled against a Florida man who sought to have his sentence for a low-level drug crime reduced, holding that a bipartisan push in Congress in 2018 to ease such punishments didn't address his circumstances. Also often used as adulterant are other, more cheaper stimulants such as caffeine and sometimes amphetamine.Watch Video: Federal government releases 2,200 prisoners as First Step Act kicks in Other adulterants Cocaine is often cut with are bulking agents such as Mannitol, Inositol and Dextrose which have a somewhat simmilar texture to Cocaine but are much cheaper and freely available but add a lot of weight and bulk to it, thus doubling or tripling the effective amount a dealer can sell (since Cocaine is always sold in volumes of weight). Cocaine is most often adulterated with local anesthetics such as Lidocaine, Benzocaine or Procaine because Cocaine it itself a local anesthetic and many people think that when they have a white powder with strong local anesthetising effects it must be Cocaine (even though it's just as if not more likely to be Lidocaine). Cocaine is always cut by dealers to increase their profit, and although harmfull adulterants such as strychnine and rat poison have been proven to be urban myths, Cocaine being cut with a wide range of less harmful substances is basic reality.