They aren&#x27;t two different things.<p>The &quot;war on drugs&quot; is, and was created precisely to be, a way to legally oppress people of color, especially black, latino, and Chinese people.<p>And it&#x27;s not just this iteration of the &quot;war on drugs.&quot;  Prohibition generally, as a policy, has throughout history been first and foremost a tool to legally oppress people who have managed to win a modicum of legal protection otherwise.<p>You are the one diverting the argument by talking about &quot;greater latitude in recreational pharmaceutical use,&quot; which, again in concert with every instance of prohibition throughout history, has not been interrupted by this policy and was never the impetus for its imposition to begin with.