The Obama administration comically thinks they deserve credit for ending the “war on drugs” simply because Obama has stopped calling their policies a “war on drugs.” This is despite the fact that the administration has done very little to change their war-style policies. For example, the Drug Czar’s communications director tweeted this. Ending the war on [...]

New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie recently admitted that the war on drugs has been a “failure” in a speech at The Brooking Institution. From Huffington Post: “The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure,” Christie said Monday during a speech at The Brookings Institution. “We’re warehousing addicted people everyday in state prisons in New [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised the United State will spend roughly an additional $40 million to help fight the drug war in Central America. From the BBC: Mrs Clinton told a regional security conference in Guatemala that the US would increase its aid by more than 10% to nearly $300m (£187m). [...] Mrs Clinton [...]

In the Arizona city of Gilbert police performed a heavily armed raid of a medical marijuana patient because they suspected he was in possession of a small amount of marijuana. There was no good reason to perform a heavily armed raid over a single ounce of marijuana, especially when talking about a medical marijuana patient who can legally possess this small amount of marijuana.

The difference between the war on drugs and the regular war is being blurred as large defense contractors are given contracts to provide services in foreign countries.