The war on drugs has taken a toll on us all. Despite the government’s efforts for decades, drugs appear more prevalent than ever, available not only in minority communities but everywhere. From marijuana, to cocaine, crack, and meth, the end result on the use of drugs is not a good one, as we see in the deteriorating neighborhoods.
President Barack Obama plans to take a stand on this issue and call out this so called drug war. It is not about “legalizing marijuana”, but taking a firm stand to allow neighborhoods and communities to find a path to truly improving their neighborhoods caught in the crossfires of this “war.”
“According to ongoing discussions with Obama aides and associates, if the president wins a second term, he plans to tackle another American war that has so far been successful only in perpetuating more misery: the four decades of The Drug War.
Don’t expect miracles. There is very little the president can do by himself. And pot-smokers shouldn’t expect the president to come out in favor of legalizing marijuana. But from his days as a state senator in Illinois, Obama has considered the Drug War to be a failure, a conflict that has exacerbated the problem of drug abuse, devastated entire communities, changed policing practices for the worse, and has led to a generation of young children, disproportionately black and minority, to grow up in dislocated homes, or in none at all.”
Read the full story published today by GQ.com.
