We have to examine our past to determine the impact of current drug policy in order to ensure that these results don't just happen again--while we stand by and watch.  Since the 1980s no single issue has struck at the heart of the struggles of Black America quite like the "War on Drugs" has.  Let me first state that the majority of black, white and Hispanic people in America do not use illicit drugs and if they do, they do so AT THE SAME RATES— this has been the case for decades.