EOC Week 7 What Legal Issues Concern You Most?

The legal issues that concern me the most are that drug dealers serve more time than someone that commits murder, by no means do I condone either act of law breaking but I find that drug dealers serve more time for a crime that is committed by both parties. A drug dealer simply provides a service to a patron that is looking for a product they are committing a crime and doing harm to themselves. A murderer commits a crime and does harm to others but can get a charge knocked down to manslaughter and serve a much shorter time than a person that is providing a service and not really hurting another human being. True drug dealers are a cancer in our communities, but not physically harming another person. However a murderer can commit the crime of killing another human being and receive a shorter sentence. For that matter why does it matter what kind of drugs a person intends to sell? Some drugs raise a person more time than other drugs. Powdered Cocaine has a lesser sentence than Crack-Cocaine; Ecstasy has a higher sentence than other pills. Why is that? I feel that any drug with the intent to distribute should have the same sentence. But for some reason you cannot bargain down a sentence to distribute drugs, but you can bargain down a murder sentence this is a major discrepancy in the legal system and it is my understanding that the law is in the process of being changed so that powdered cocaine and crack cocaine carry the same sentences which I do not know why the sentences would be separated in the first place, I guess it is due to people with more money purchased powdered cocaine and people with less money purchased crack cocaine. Maybe it’s all a money game.