Last nail hammered in crack baby myth’s coffin

An extensive, longitudinal study shows that while babies born to crack cocaine-using mothers have some effects, the effects are far less than those fdrom fetal alcohol syndrome and indeed are about the same as from mothers smoking cigarettes. And, a lot fewer mothers smoke crack (or snort powder, for that matter), than drink a bit too much, or smoke Marlboros.

Also, blaming crack lets larger, largely white, society ignore the social condition that actually were and are a more serious contributor to the delayed mental development of “crack babies.”

And, it allowed people like Ronnie Reagan to come up with and push the bullshit of the “War on Drugs” in the name of saving little black babies from becoming grown-up black adults.