It’s really based in racial prejudices.
Hannah Hetzer: The reason for keeping legal some drugs and not others has nothing to do with scientific evidence, it’s really based in racial prejudices, the association of certain drugs with certain populations, assumed to be using certain drugs. You’ve seen the hardest and most repressive drug policies mirror the populations that the US assumes are using those drugs. The anti-cocaine laws were directed at the African-American community, the opium laws at the Chinese community, anti-marijuana laws at the Mexican community.
