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It s no secret that America s war on drugs quickly morphed into a race war, with enforcement efforts disproportionally targeting communities of color, wrecking lives and gutting communities in the name of righteous reform for nearly a century.
The Human Toll: How the War on Cannabis Targeted Black America, a three-part series of sobering mini-docs from Vanity Fair and electronic vaporizer maker PAX Labs, tackles that charged topic head-on.
The first episode, running about eight minutes, dropped last week. It posits that white America s obsession with rooting out weed began, in large part, as a reaction to burgeoning Black identity during the Jazz Age and beyond.