Anti-drug laws have always hit communities of color more than white communities.

This Vox article said it best: “ Although black communities aren't more likely to use or sell drugs, they are much more likely to be arrested and incarcerated for drug offenses.”(German).

The War on Drugs was never really about cutting down on drug use or saving or helping people with it. It originally started as mass hysteria from the effects opioids had on Chinese people, according to a Vox article, even though there were laws in place.

Then it was pumped up because it was political device used to help Richard Nixon win over the White house and beat down black people and anti-drug wars during the 60’s. Even Nixon's domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman said that it was a way to get back at certain groups of people, “by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities...Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."(LoBianco). As you can see the War on Drugs has never really was about noble intentions.