Bush's “war on drugs,” an extension of Reagon's earlier battle, had “crowded the courts, filled the prisons, corrupted law officials, compromised ...civil liberties, and criminalized substantial sectors of American society.” 1 Compared to the indulgence experienced in the late 1960s under Nixon, where a "specific subculture of approximately 68,088 identifiable heroin addicts" who, subject to arrest for heroin possession and successfully convicted, were "sentenced to prison hospital treatment federal office in Lexington, Kentucy.”2 After the three drug wars, civil liberties were compromised; the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution relating to “search and unreasonable seizures.” Drug checks can be conducted on any motorist on interstate highways, and residents are subject to summary searches.3 As The House We Live In has demonstrated, any driver caught carrying a minimum of $5,000 in cash will be carrying a minimum of $5,000 in cash. his money and his vehicle, often a truck - seized and taken under the current US seizure law. Under this law, random searches are conducted at roadside checks and cars are stopped everywhere based on the suspicions of the police. Under the tenures of Reagan and Bush, heavy mandatory minimum prison sentences were introduced. These long mandatory minimum sentences were part of new state and federal laws targeting drug offenders and distinguishing between big-time dealers and small-time users. The “war on drugs” had led to the expansion of the US prison population to “unprecedented levels”. “Under President Reagan's campaign, annual drug arrests in the United States doubled from 569,000 in 1977 to 1,155,000 in 1988; furthermore, only 3/4 of these arrests occurred for “simple” drug possession alone, including… means of documents… seized for operation. As this paper has explored, US drug prohibition since its inception, followed by the “war on drugs,” has failed. The repressive strategies present in drug wars not only fail to manage the inherently complex nature of international drug trafficking, but, as history has shown, they have exacerbated the problem. Domestically, the effects of the “war on drugs” have been equally ineffective and harmful to society, with heavy mandatory minimum prison sentences and the highest imprisonment rate in the world. From this perspective, the war on drugs has been a failure; however, in other respects, it is a success. It is a success as drug laws disproportionately affect minorities, particularly the black community; furthermore, it exclusively targets the lowest strata of society. As this article has examined, the “war on drugs” is a proxy genocide of the lower classes.