Many lost their property. Millions have been incarcerated by drug prohibition. Currently 500,000 people are behind bars. Sentences are often far greater than the internment inflicted upon those descendants of the rising sun. Thousands have been killed.
Property is taken through asset forfeitures.
Convicted drug felons lose the right to vote. Indeed we are witnessing the greatest disenfranchisement of blacks in modern history. The drug war easily surpasses the Japanese-American internment in its magnitude. Government action is causing severe deprivation of fundamental rights on a mass scale. Discriminatory application of the policy leads to the harmful effects impacting disfavored groups to a far greater extent.