It's Obama's (drug) war now

For all the (necessary) talk about the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan (not to mention Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere), there is still this really expensive and massively failing drug war, too.

And now President Obama is the leader of it.

I have already documented elsewhere the positive changes that have happened in drug policy since Obama took office, and will say much more about that here shortly. See here: http://www.cjcj.org/files/toward_a.pdf

In the mean time, it's important to remember that, for the most part, the war wages on, mostly unchanged.

Here is a gread read about one major reason it should end -- MONEY.

From the article: "Could this be the beginning of the end of the drug war, a war that has reportedly cost more than $1 trillion in the past few decades, with little to show for it beyond millions who have been branded criminals and felons, ushered behind bars and then released into a permanent second-class status?"


http://www.thenation.com/article/156997/obamas-drug-war