incentive to the crime and rape by the Negroes,” warned Theodore !
             Roosevelt’s drug advisor. Also underlined with fears and myths of immigrants, the prohibition of alcohol exaggerated effects of consumption. As will be seen later, this is not the only similarity between the prohibition of alcohol and the prohibition of drugs.
             The prejudice that the banning of drug sales is born from is also increased through its enforcement. In reality, the war on drugs is a war on minorities. Usage of illegal drugs doesn’t vary that much between races, but incarceration based on drug charges does due to racial profiling. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, five times as many blacks as whites were in state prisons and jails for drug offenses. Figuring in the fact that the total population of whites outnumbers blacks by a ratio of six to one, blacks are seeing the prison gates at thirty times the per capita rate of whites. The number for Hispanics to whites is just as disturbing with 51,200 to 43,200 given that whites out number Hispanics by more than six to one. “’Law enforcement pays more attention to blacks than whites’ says Vincent Schiraldi, director of the Justice Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. ‘Our juvenile jails are a sea of black and Latino faces. Minorit!
             ies are being put behind bars for things that would be unthinkable if they were white, middle class kids ‘“(Progressive).
             With this prejudice in mind, the first major argument against the war on drugs is the breach of Constitutional rights. Through prohibition, the government is controlling the right of a drug user from potentially destroying his/her body. “Under the United States Constitution and anti-slavery laws, th
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