The War on Drugs AKA the War on Blacks and Browns

http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/53

California Total Arrests, 2005-1985 http://ag.ca.gov/cjsc/publications/candd/cd05/tabs/2005Table16.pdf

Reported Drug use by High School Students by Race/Ethnicity 2007 White (65.8%) Black (12.8) Hispanic (14.4) Other (7%) Lifetime Marijuana 38 39.6 38.9 32.9 Current marijuana 19.9 21.5 18.5 17.2 Lifetime cocaine 7.4 1.8 5.3 6.5 Current cocaine 3 11 4 Lifetime inhalant 14.4 8.5 14.1 12.6 Lifetime methamphetamine 4.5 1.9 5.7 5.2 Lifetime ecstasy 5.6 3.7 5.8 Lifetime illegal steroid 4.1 2.2 4.6 3.1 Marijuana before age 13 7.2 9.5 9.8 9.9 TOTAL 74 57.7 76 66.1 http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/minorities/minorities_ff.html

FY 2007 Federal Drug Defendants During FY 2007, there were 25,457 Federal defendants charged with a drug offense whose race was reported to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Approximately one quarter (24.3%) of these defendants were white, 29.5% were black, and 42.7% were Hispanic. Individuals of another race made up 3.5% of these drug cases. Hispanic defendants were sentenced for the majority of powder cocaine, heroin, and marijuana cases. White defendants were sentenced for the majority of methamphetamine cases and blacks were sentenced for the majority of crack cocaine offenses.

At yearend 2004, there were an approximate total of 1,274,600 sentenced State prison inmates, 249,400 of whom were incarcerated for drug offenses. The majority of drug offenders held in State prisons were black (112,500 or 45%), followed by whites (65,900 or 26%), and Hispanics (51,800 or 21%).