Based on history within the United States, race plays a role towards policy, when certain ethnic groups come in contact with drugs. Upon interaction, politicians and the media perpetuate the dangers of drugs and its influence on people’s behaviors and crime. By creating drug scare, politicians initiate legislative policies that tackles said drug interactions to gain support. Drug policies are derived from hysteria and fear. Which results in the mass incarceration of minority groups as a means of control and suppression in society. The idea of drug policy first came about in the early 20th century with Chinese migrant workers use of opium smoking. Later marijuana was criminalized due to a drug scare created towards Mexican immigrants’ abnormal
