NIDA Director Says Evidence Exists Showing Cannabis Prohibition’s Racist Effects

Sep 14, 2021

Decades after the government kicked off the war on drugs in an attempt to reduce drug abuse and defund the criminal enterprises behind the drug trade, America is still reeling from the effects of this failed endeavor. While the intent behind the drug war was noble, authorities went about achieving it the wrong way, mainly focusing their attention on minorities such as African Americans and Latinos, and wreaking untold havoc on these underserved communities.

Presently, it is widely accepted that the decades-long war on drugs is an unmitigated failure that has ruined millions of lives over exceedingly minor drug offenses, broken families and condemned people to…

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