This article points to several facts concerning statements people in high office in the Obama administration that indicate that there may be a change in government policy regarding the U.S. Government’s “War on Drugs”. First Gil Kerlikomeske, Obama’s new drug czar, has commented that we need to stop looking at the drug problem as a war because people see war as a war on them. He said that it was time to focus on treatment and less on incarceration. Wecond, Eric Holder, Attorney General, announced that the federal government will no longer raid and prosecute distributors of medical marijuana who operate in the 13 states that have made medical marijuana legal. Holder also announced that his department intends to eliminate the outrageous and prejudicial sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. In his campaign, Obama proposed reinstating th anti-AIDS program that supplies clean needles to drug users. However, despite these speeches and rhetoric, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has since raided medical marijuana dispensers in California.
Huffington, Arianna, “Will Obama End the War on Drugs?”, Huffington Post,May 18, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/140074/will_obama_end_the_war_on_drugs/ [59]
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