War on drugs becomes war on pot

WP reports today Marijuana Becomes Focus of Drug War; Less Emphasis on Heroin and Cocaine.

"In reality, the war on drugs as pursued in the 1990s was to a large degree a war on marijuana," said Ryan S. King, the study's co-author and a research associate at the Sentencing Project. "Marijuana is the most widely used illegal substance, but that doesn't explain this level of growth over time. . . . The question is, is this really where we want to be spending all our money?"



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