Obama's Drug Policy: Yet Another Broken Promise

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[i] Katharine Q. Seelye, “Barack Obama, asked about drug history, admits he inhaled - Americas - International Herald Tribune,” New York Times, October 24, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/world/americas/24iht-dems.3272493.html

[ii] “The ‘war on drugs’ is over,” L.A. Times, May 16, 2009, http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/16/opinion/ed-drugs16

[iii] “State by State Laws,” National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4516, accessed on July 28, 2011

[iv] John Hoeffel, “Federal government says marijuana has no accepted medical use,” L.A. Times, July 8, 2011, http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/08/3757061/federal-government-says-marijuana.html

[v] Global Commission on Drug Policy, “Global Commission on Drug Policy Report,” page 14

[vi] “Controlled Substances Schedules,” Drug Enforcement Administration Office of Diversion Control, http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/index.html, Accessed on July 28, 2011

[vii] Ibid.

[viii] Chris Roberts, “Medical Marijuana: Justice Department Says It's Illegal And the Feds Will Arrest You“ San Francisco Weekly, July 1^st, 2011, http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/07/justice_department_clarifies_s.php

[ix] “Police bust medical marijuana dispensaries in Kent,” My Northwest, July 6, 2011, http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=510034

[x] José Meriño, “Nexos: Army’s Presence Equals More Homicides in Mexico (Revisited),” Insight Crime, June 5, 2011, http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1035-nexos-armys-presence-equals-more-homicides-in-mexico?-revisited

[xi] Global Commission on Drug Policy, “Context,” http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/

[xii] “U.S., Mexican governments reject report calling for drug legalization”, L.A. Times, June 3, 2011, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2011/06/obama-calderon-drug-war-report-commission-reject.html

[xiii] http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/news/press11/060211.html

[xiv] Laura Carlsen, “Javier Sicilia: ‘The United States Imposed This War on Us, It Should Change the Strategy”, CIP Americas, June 7, 2011, http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4759

[xv] Alto a las Armas, Alianza http://www.alianzacivica.org.mx/altoalasarmas/indexSp.php

[xvi] Katie Soltis, “Mexican Drug Violence Fueled by U.S. Guns,” Council on Hemispheric Affairs, June 27, 2011, http://www.coha.org/mexican-drug-violence-fueled-by-u-s-guns/

[xvii] Charlie Savage, “New Reporting Rules on Multiple Sales of Guns Near Border,” New York Times, July 11, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/us/politics/12guns.html?_r=1&ref=americas

[xviii] Ibid.

[xix] “Who We Are,” Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, http://www.leap.cc/about/who-we-are/

[xx] “Kerlikowske: Anti-pot laws are positive,” Seattle Pi, June 22, 2011, http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/06/22/kerlikowske-anti-pot-laws-are-positive/

[xxi] “Race and Prison,” Drug War Facts, http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/64, Accessed on July 28, 2011 and
Ariana Huffington, “AWOL in the real drug war,” L.A. Times, March 24, 2007, http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/24/opinion/oe-huffington24

[xxii] Obama on Twitter, http://obama.twitsprout.com/, accessed on July 6^th, 2011

[xxiii] Andrew Belonsky, “Obama Ignores Marijuana in Twitter Town Hall,” Death + Taxes Magazine, July 7, 2011, http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/114462/obama-ignores-marijuana-at-twitter-town-hall/

[xxiv] “Report: Congress to Consider End of Marijuana Ban,” Consumer Affairs, June 23, 2011, http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2011/06/report-congress-to-consider-end-of-marijuana-ban.html

[xxv] “Marijuana Bill Officially Introduced to Congress by Ron Paul, Barney Frank,” June 23, 2011, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/marijuana-bill-officially-introduced-to-congress-by-ron-paul-barney-frank.html

[xxvi] Sylvia Longmire, “Legalizing Marijuana Won’t Kill the Cartels,” New York Times, June 18, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/opinion/19longmire.html

[xxvii] “Ron Paul Bill Would End Federal War on Marijuana,” The Atlantic, June 23, 2011, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/ron-paul-bill-would-end-federal-war-on-marijuana/240899/

[xxviii] “Mitt Romney on Drugs,” On The Issues, July 20, 2007, http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Mitt_Romney_Drugs.htm