1.0 link 166202 <![CDATA[Obama's New Drug Czar Couldn't Be Any Worse Than Bush's. Will He Be Any Better?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norm-stamper/obamas-new-drug-czar-coul_b_166202.html I'd have preferred someone from the public health/medical field, but, if nominated, as expected, and confirmed by the Senate, current Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske will no doubt do a better job as the nation's "drug czar" than his predecessor.

John Walters, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, was a fanatic enemy of science and reason. His "reefer madness" misstatements on marijuana, his ill-conceived, mulish advocacy of drug testing in public schools, his refusal...

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