Homeland Security chief touts new anti-drug plan

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised Thursday that a new Obama Administration border drug-fighting strategy won't just focus on smugglers.

She said the counternarcotics plan also will set its sights on reducing demand from drug users. Napolitano will unveil it Friday with Attorney General Eric Holder and drug czar Gil Kerlikowske (kur-lih-KOW'-skee) in Albuquerque, N.M.

"This is not just about slowing or impeding the flow of drugs from Mexico and Central America into the United States, it's also about reducing the demand for those drugs," she said.

Napolitano wouldn't elaborate on details during an appearance here Thursday in which she announced grants of about $59 million for local law enforcement efforts to combat crime along the southwestern border.

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and many problems would be solved.

I honestly don't see any other strategies for "demand reduction" available..

Anyone else got any ideas?

It makes sense, hence it will be totally impossible to get legislated.

This is a well known fact.

I'm talking about looking at this from the perspective of the powers that be.

That is a BAD THING

Like I said, you have to look at it from the perspective of those in power, to them more corruption is a good thing, more opportunities for profit.

But we count for very little in the overall scheme of things.

lower the rate of violence, abuse and the rape of children. But that's too hard, and where's the profit?

They have to quit trying to control drug distribution without touching it or getting their hands in it. :crazy: They need to leave that high magic to the Magi. With legalization comes regulation and that ever elusive control.

for too many the solution is drug dealers.

How is that going to happen? Is the CIA going to stop bringing Herion into this country?

...a book called The Natural Mind, by Dr. Andrew Weil. It came out in the early Seventies, and by now it should have been required reading for any political hacks involved in formulating "national drug policy." Reading it may possibly help this uninformed bureaucratic stiff do her job a lot better.

It's looking like I'll die (even if I die from simple "old age"), before I ever see this Country's "leadership" evolve to a point somewhere beyond that of a fear-filled knuckle-dragger brandishing a club.

they never learn... prohibition doesn't work. All this does is fuel the police state, and cause more destruction. :(

What appears to you to be a bug is actually a feature to the powers that be.

this should work out well for the prison industrial complex.

Not just rehab, either. Real prevention programs that involve kids.

Not holding my breath, though. :shrug:

USA already has 25% of the world's prisoners, despite only having 5% of the world's population.