"If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore."

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In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.

— Michelle Alexander