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Obama Changes The Drug War From Jail to Rehab

Written by News One on March 12, 2009 12:24 pm

The White House said yesterday that it will push for treatment, rather than incarceration, of people arrested for drug-related crimes as it announced the nomination of Seattle Police Chief R. Gil Kerlikowske to oversee the nation’s effort to control illegal drugs.

The choice of drug czar and the emphasis on alternative drug courts, announced by Vice President Biden, signal a sharp departure from Bush administration policies, gravitating away from cutting the supply of illicit drugs from foreign countries and toward curbing drug use in communities across the United States.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Brandon_Cerrone/ Brandon_Cerrone

    Exactly what I was talkin bout in the Slim Thug comment I left… How can y’all have soooo much info on Rihanna and Chris Brown, but have 2 measly ass paragraphs about some s**t that really matters in America. Obama just needs to legalize weed anyway… everybody can get their hands on it. They legalized tobacco back in the day, only because they got a cut from it. but since everybody got their hands on some weed, they make it illegal. Tobacco has side effects just as well as marijuana… but oh well that’s a whole different topic

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kemoni_rayshawn/ kemoni_rayshawn

    that’s whatz up, i hear ya Brandon_Cerrone!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TooFine4Dymes/ TooFine4Dymes

    true s**t…couldn’t have worded it any better myself

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Your_Destinee/ Your_Destinee

    Take it from a person wit a drug related charge facin time… THIS IS THE BEST F**KIN IDEA EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats what it do President Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    They ain’t gonna never make that s**t legal. But that is what needs to be done.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mizta_Tito/ Mizta_Tito

    cant tax green so they aint gonna legalize it. but nun the less we shall see what happens with this.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/T3XT/ T3XT

    WILL IT EFFECT PEOPLES WHO’M ARE DOIN MULTIPLE LIFE SENTENCES BEHIND DRUGS WILL IT ERASE THE RECORDS OF THOSE PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED GO OBAMA MAN U ALREADY THE BEST FOR BLACKS

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