The nation's top drug official went on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night and proclaimed the old War on Drugs a failure. Michael Botticelli, who serves as the director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, also said he wants to reform and refocus U.S. drug policy.
When asked by "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley if the costly drug war that has been in place for more than 40 years had been wrong, Botticelli had blunt words for what he called the "failed policies and failed practices" of the past, noting that those policies were largely responsible for the nation's mass incarceration epidemic.
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A trillion dollars down the rabbit hole, hundreds of thousands jailed or worse, hundreds of billions spent in courts, millions of law enforcement man hours wasted, a huge Black Market created and trillions of dollars supporting world terrorists and murderous cartels.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess that could be called a failure.
Well the current President is a drug user soooo...
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