Obama's Slightly Nicer War On Drugs

Alternett

Obama's toned down the the rhetoric on drugs considerabley, and come out in support of some promising changes—like the examples mentioned above. But will he actually do anything except continue the same war with kinder words. And will he have the politcal balls to stand up to the big private prison operators, who have been the main beneficiaries of the war on drugs—and the war on smoking marijuana that Bush Jr. started a few years ago. This article by Arianna Huffington on Alternet summarizes the administrations position so far and attempts to answer that question...