Scott Morgan: Fixing Our Drug Policy Will Require A Hatchet, Not A Scalpel. Two different staffers at the Drug Czar's office have both used the same word recently to describe Obama's approach to drug policy.
That word, if you can believe it, is reform. It's a term I use an awful lot myself, and I must admit I'm more than a little intrigued to find Obama's top anti-drug officials co-opting the catchphrases of their critics. Here's Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman for the Drug Czar, making the case here in the Huffington Post that Obama's approach to drug policy is something new and dramatically different than what we've seen in the past: The complexity and scale of our drug problem requires a nationwide effort to support smart drug policies that reduce drug use and its consequences.
Drug-Fighting Effort Along Northern Border a National Model. The wrong way to fight the war on drugs. Jim Bildner and Madeline Drexler THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago this month, President Richard Nixon launched the modern-day war on drugs, calling illicit substances ``America's public enemy number one.
" Today -- after endless confiscations and arrests, stacks of scientific reports, and hundreds of billions of dollars in government funding -- Americans are left with one conclusion: The war on drugs has failed. (Full article: 671 words) This article is available in our archives: