Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit June 11, 1991, 90-50242, CR-89-0243-TJH-2 (United States v. Jesse Lee Shaw, United States of America v. Anthony Wilson)

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Shaw and Wilson were convicted for distributing a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The district court sentenced them as though they had distributed “cocaine” as opposed to “cocaine base” because it held that “cocaine base” only refers to cocaine compounds containing a hydroxylion and the government had failed to show that the rock