President Clinton has been under pressure to end the disparity in cocaine sentencing laws ever since the Million Man March in Washington two years ago. It was then that the Rev. Jesse Jackson assailed the wide disparity in sentences for crack and powder cocaine as ungodly, immoral and racist.
He was only partly right. No one questions that the disparity -- at 100 to 1 -- was unjust. The law mandated that judges sentence anyone convicted of selling five grams of crack to five years. By contrast, someone found guilty of selling 500 grams of powdered cocaine would receive the same sentence.
Now, however, Attorney General Janet Reno and the White House drug …
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