Yet another great read. Have a look!

Excerpted from: http://www.tremblethedevil.com/2009/09/how-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-...

As our financial crisis deepens and the schisms between the haves and the have-nots continue to open, American drug laws and the prison system they’ve helped create are beginning to gather an increasingly harsh spotlight.

But so what. It’s not like the War on Drugs, begun almost two generations ago in 1973, has done anything to increase the growing level of economic disparity in America… right?

A lot happened in 1973.

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But it also marks the year the Rockefeller Drug Laws were passed. And that same year, something funny happened: the income gap between black and white begins to widen back out, instead of closing – as it had been up until 1973.

Is that just a coincidence, or is there demonstrable cause-and-effect at work? If you know anything about American drug laws, it shouldn’t surprise you that some 90% of those arrested under the Rockefeller drug laws in the first years after its passing were minorities.