Progressive Moves Planned For Drug Policy
November 7th, 2008 by Perry
With the recent power shift in the White House, pundits are expecting a departure from the last eight years of drug policy, which has seen an aggressive revival of Reagan’s War on Drugs through Bush and his cabinet’s abuse of executive authority.
Obama is already committed to abstain from using federal resources to raid state-legal marijuana dispensaries. Furthermore, for the drug czar position, there has been mention of Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton.
While all of us over at theFreshScent would have preferred maybe someone a little more liberal, like Cheech Marin, I think it’s time to save our “boos” for the time being. Bratton has shown support for medical marijuana before, not only in interviews, but also by respecting Jerry Brown’s wishes in reducing the crackdown on dispensaries.
With several elections still undecided or still re-counting, the Democrats are likely to pick up 22 new seats in Congress, 17 of which belonged to medical marijuana opponents in the last Congress. And every single Democratic incumbent who lost Tuesday was a medical marijuana opponent.
