The New Drug Czar has echoed my concerns for many years. THat is a link to a WSJ article so it may or may not work. The upshot is that the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske beleives we have a War on People, not on things. And that is the perception of people. Indeed we lock up people, not drugs. As the former Police chief of Seattle, he experimented with treatment as opposed to programs that criminalized behavior. We may finally be seeing some rational thought in an out of control program. We teach Theory of Organizations, and for good reason.
But be on guard. The head of the Fraternal Order of Police said that's fine but he does not want to see it done the expense of law enforcement. What does that mean? It means that he does not want to see the endless stream of money to bolster departments in a war that will never be won which of course insures a continuing supply of money to expand police departments.
It will probably take a couple of generations to begin to defuse this madness. More likely Obama has concluded the same thing about marijuana et al that FDR did about alcohol, it would be much easier to regulate it than outlaw it. And with a lot less loss of life.
Professor Elam 
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