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An Imperfect Improvement: Obama's New Drug War Strategy by Ethan Nadelmann

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

An Imperfect Improvement: Obama's New Drug War Strategy Ethan Nadelmann Drug Policy Alliance, Executive Director Posted: May 11, 2010 The White House's 2010 National Drug Control Strategy, released this morning by President Obama and drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, is both encouraging and discouraging. There's no question that it points in a different direction and embraces specific policy options counter to those of the past thirty years. But it differs little on the fundamental issues of budget and drug policy paradigm, retaining the overwhelming emphasis on law enforcement and supply control strategies that doomed the policies of its predecessors. First, to give credit where credit is due: The Obama administration has taken important steps to undo some of the damage of past administrations' drug policies...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).