Dr. Cian Ó Concubhair:

I agree. What is interesting is that if we examine the development of war-on-drugs policies in the US, we note that those involved in promoting the prohibition agenda turned their attention to drugs when that agenda failed. They did not see prohibition as a failure; they just lost the political argument and then turned their attention to drugs, which were perceived to be more of a race-related problem. It was not that only Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans or black Americans used the substances; everyone used them but they were perceived to be a problem only in their communities, and policing resources were deployed almost exclusively in them to deal with the problem.