JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Artie Deshann Crawford appeals his sentence based on a plea of guilty to distributing 55.6 grams of cocaine base in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (1994). Crawford attacks the sentencing scheme which punishes distribution of cocaine base far more severely than distribution of cocaine. He argues that the distinction in section 841(b) and U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 between cocaine base and cocaine is nonsensical because the two terms...
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