[coloradan]

Crack is far more harmful & addictive than cocaine.

That only gets you half way there. Alcohol and tobacco are far more harmful and addictive than marijuana, but the latter is more illegal than the former are. So there must be some other agenda at work behind the harsher criminal penalties for crack.

[rb22982]

While that is true, with the exception of marijuana all other drug penalties are based on how harmful they are IIRC.