You're focusing on what Alaxandre said about race, but when you look at the other adjectives: young and illiterate, you'll get a better idea of where this is co

You're focusing on what Alaxandre said about race, but when you look at the other adjectives: young and illiterate, you'll get a better idea of where this is coming from, since so much of the "criminalization" of drugs focuses on the imprisonment of the huge parts of the population that match those three descriptives. The white kids, wealthy tourists, bank employees, etc. who smoke some dope at the end of the day never, ever, think twice about it.