Chapter 14 of STAMPED elucidates the “Anti-Drug Abuse Act”, issued by American President Ronald Reagan in 1980, which was known as the “War against Drugs”. It intended to have maximum punishments for people with drugs, like marijuana, and at the time only a few Americans believed that marijuana was that dangerous. Furthermore, during Reagan’s second term in 1986, the Act gave a minimum sentence of five years in prison for drug users and dealers keeping at least 5 grams of crack, but this consequently targeted more poor or black people than wealthy or white people, therefore, a columnist invented the term “crack baby” which suggested that black children were destined for inferiority, they were subhuman because the drugs had changed their genetics
