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Are We Giving Up in the War on Drugs?

By Steve Nolen on January 26, 2010

When Gil Kerlikowske was appointed Drug Czar, I was heartened. I got to work with Gil a few years back when he was Chief of Police in Seattle, and I worked as criminal justice policy adviser to the County Executive. He's a sharp guy, who believes in making policy based on research. If there is one thing that research and statistics have shown us is that the billions of dollars this country has spent prosecuting the "War on Drugs" has been money thrown down a rathole. So I was happy when I read that the Obama administration was going to stop using the term "Drug War".

Good first step to changing minds, I thought, to change the language. Because instead of winning -- whatever that means in this context -- we have made losers out of thousands of otherwise innocent law abiding people by turning them into criminals, while fostering violence here and around the world.

Since Gil was appointed we have heard a little about the issue, but mostly national drug policy has been changing behind the scenes. Well sometimes its best to look to media outside the U.S. to find out what is happening here.

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