christina puig, al jazeera, miami. >>> ending the war on drugs, he joins a long list of public figures who say the anti-drug campaign only hurts poor minority community. russell simmons. >> your perspective sort of drug laws and his death -- >> that's all i said. if he were alive today would he go to jail or rehab? and i say end the war on drugs. the war on drugs has done more to destroy the fabric of the black community than anything we can think of. not the effects of jim crow and the effects of slavery, it's the war on drugs have taken innocent, diseased people, locked them up, educated them in criminal behavior and dumped them back in the hood with no hope. that became jail culture, for the hood, not for the schools. not for the prison. i mean prison has it. you learn and you're educated in things you never would have done just by -- and whites and blacks don't they use and sell drugs at the same rate? when we were ending those laws 94% of the people black or brown, incarcerated under the rockefeller laws, incarcerate more people in the world, america responsible for locking its ow