re: Why are the penalties for Cannabis Concentrates more stringent than the plant ?

My understanding is it went back to the crack-cocaine epidemic. At the time, lawmakers increased the charge for any “concentrated” version of a drug (with crack being a concentrated version of cocaine) so that they could really hammer crack users/distributors hard.

Problem is, our government never removes laws, they only add new ones. So the books still state that any concentrated version of any drug be charged at the highest level possible. And our old-frick politicians are too disconnected from the rest of society to realize just how crazy it is to charge a kid with a schedule 2 felony for a couple vape pens or a single weed brownie




But that’s a state law, not a federal one