David Simon says legalizing solely marijuana is a misguided goal, because it would help American whites while allowing the War on Drugs to continue oppressing blacks who take and sell cocaine.

He also says that they need to sell cocaine because that's the only work available to them.

I am not convinced. I think each time we deal a setback to the War on Drugs will help get rid of the rest of it. Meanwhile, if cocaine were decriminalized enough to end the oppression of the War on Drugs, it would also become far less lucrative. It would no longer be able to support all the blacks who can no longer find any other industry.

What we really need to do is end the oppression of the surplus Americans. A lot more Americans are going to become surplus in the next decade due to robots and AI.

It is the plutocrats who have decided to condemn these people to poverty, so we must redirect the War on Drugs into a War on Plutocracy.