You can make this point about these "side effects" for other countries as well. You will find plenty of commentators making the point that the US' War On Drugs

You can make this point about these "side effects" for other countries as well. You will find plenty of commentators making the point that the US' War On Drugs has effectively been institutionalizing racism against blacks in the US, like the ACLU [1] or individual civil rights scholars calling it the "New Jim Crow" [2]. Others even claim that it may have had roots in a motivation to target "blacks and hippies" [3]. Whatever the reason, statistics describing the outcome of legal disparities between crack and cocaine in the US [4] seem to support the claim that the US justice system and drug laws in particular tend to reinforce racism and social exclusion. Whatever the war on drugs was supposed to achieve, it certainly seems to be achieving something different altogether. [1] - https://www.aclu.org/other/race-war-drugs https://www.aclu.org/other/race-war-drugs [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow [3] - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-nixon-drug-war-john-ehrlichman_us_56f58be6e4b0a3721819ec61 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-nixon-drug-war-... [4] - https://americanaddictioncenters.org/cocaine-treatment/differences-with-crack/ https://americanaddictioncenters.org/cocaine-treatment/diffe...