Hi friends, happy Thursday!

Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Today, we are going to talk about how the media’s reporting on a basketball superstar’s overdose kicked President Regan’s War on Drugs into overdrive and led to incredibly harsh punishments for crack users vs. cocaine. Even though crack and cocaine are the same damn drug.

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Crack Vs. Cocaine Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:03 COCAINE BACKGROUND
05:08 CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
09:12 COCAINE POPULARITY IN HISTORY
12:02 RICK ROSS
17:16 PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
22:06 PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
25:52 LENNY BIAS
30:38 100:1 Ratio
32:57 JOHNNY ST. VALENTINE
36:47 INCARCERATION NATION
41:03 DERRICK CURRY
44:42 CRACK VS COCAINE

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Bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T...
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Dark History is an Audioboom Original.

This podcast is Executive Produced by:
Chelsea Durgin from Slash Mgmt, Bailey Sarian, and Fanny Baudry from Wheelhouse DNA
Producer: Lexxi Kiven, Derrial Christon and Spencer Strasmore
Research provided by: Romona Kivett & Jed Bookout
Writers: Jed Bookout, Michael Oberst, Joey Scavuzzo and me - Bailey Sarian
I'm your host ----Princess of the Dark, Bailey Sarian
Historical Consultants: David Alan Sklansky and Eric Sterling
Video Director: Trent Barboza and Eric Abell
Edited by: Ryan Philander & Jim Luci
Production Management: Marissa Barrrientos