May 10
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President Obama’s war on his own ‘youthful irresponsibility’
In his high school yearbook photo, President Barack Obama sports a white leisure suit and a Travolta-esque collar whose wingspan could put a bystander’s eye out. Hey, it was 1979.
Maybe that explains the rest of young Barry’s yearbook page, with its “still life” featuring a pack of rolling papers and a shout-out to the “Choom gang.” (”Chooming” is Hawaiian slang for smoking pot.)
Far be it from me to condemn our president for harmless (and amusing) youthful indiscretions. As his predecessor put it, “When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.”
But Obama’s older now, and he’s responsible for administering our nation’s drug policy. Surely he can’t feel comfortable locking up thousands of Americans for the sort of behavior that gave him a chuckle three decades ago.
Yet, in his new National Drug Control Strategy, Obama “firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other illicit drug” and boasts of his administration’s aggressive approach to pot eradication. Watch your back, Choom Gang.
Two days after the “new” strategy’s release, the Associated Press published a comprehensive analysis of our 40-year drug war, using data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
Since 1970, we’ve spent a trillion dollars trying to improve Americans’ character by preventing them from ingesting federally disapproved substances. Nearly $450 billion went toward locking up 37 million nonviolent offenders, 10 million for marijuana possession.
Obama has won praise from liberal pundits by paying lip service to drug-war de-escalation, but as the AP report shows, he has devoted more resources to enforcement than any other president.
“We’re not at war with people in this country,” the president’s drug czar insists, so we should stop calling it a “war on drugs,” which leads Americans to see it “as a war on them.”
How did they ever get that idea? You can find the answer in a horrifying YouTube video that has garnered more than a million views this month. In it, a ninja-garbed SWAT team breaks into a private home in Columbia, Mo., and shoots the family dog in front of the suspect’s 7-year-old son.
After seizing “a pipe and a small amount of marijuana,” they had the audacity to charge the parents with child endangerment.
Read more at the Washington Examiner
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