The "war on drugs" is steeped in racism and plays a large part in the state repression of people to this day. I have hoped for years that people would start rea

The "war on drugs" is steeped in racism and plays a large part in the state repression of people to this day. I have hoped for years that people would start realizing this connection. Sadly, the racial witch hunters of the day prefer to focus their energy on symptomatic outliers (e.g. Ferguson) instead of the root source of legal injustice. The powers granted to the state through the drug war and all the side effects thereof are crippling generations.