President to Downgrade Drug Czar Position from Cabinet Rank — A Move Biden Criticized in 1989

I HOPE After the Deadly Shooting In AL Yesterday, And The shooting In IL Sunday. President Obama and Congress CHANGE The Gun Laws so Guns dont end up in the Hands of Maniacs And Innocent people Keep Dying! time to CHANGE THE GUN LAWS!

Without a teleprompter Obama has nothing.
He can’t think on his feet, can barely complete a sentence without stuttering, which makes him sound incompetent and deceptive.
He’s a complete fraud set out to bring America down.

Why do we need all these drug czars? What have they ever accomplished? Biden might know drug policy but what has he ever done to stop drugs other than come up with the handle “drug czar”?

Angie In PA Wrote: The Man couldnt even put a Sentence together That Made Sense”!
He couldn’t stand straight, was always draped over the podium. Makes you wonder if he didn’t take a shot or two of liquid courage before those ramblings that served as speeches.

Is this supposed to be a gotcha? Ask yourself if anything may have changed in the drug wars over the last 20 years. Is it possible we have different priorities now? Have any other issues – say terrorism – arisen that make the Drug Czar position less of a focus?

PAFAO
All I am saying is Everyday Citizens Should Not have AK-47 There should be better Gun Laws to Protect Innocent Citizens!

They should arrest and prosecute the gun… Right? Because that’s what was responsible evidently.
Put the weapon on trial and outlaw sharp objects while we are at it.

ANGIE IN PA. I’m glad I own 3 AK-47s an M-16, 4 shotguns, and 10 pistols. If this country is ever attacked or taken over by a coup, no matter how farfetched, don’t ask me to help you! It might not happen in our lifetime, so I’m making sure my sons will have them, just in case. The only way I’m giving up my guns, is when you pry them from my cold dead fingers.

Doug what about those of you that uses the stuff just stop Then there would be no demand for it Laws are made to protect people YES even from themselves I might not want wear by seat blt but I know if I don’t I’ll could be fined if I don’t What about going back to the days that we do what right Take a walk around SF and see the zombies

The problem is there shouldn’t even be a “Drug Czar”. Drug use is a health issue, not criminal by default. Ask “Cops Say Legalize Drugs” at leap and Norml. Getting ACTUAL facts and information, is the key. Biden doesn’t have the “unrivaled breadth of knowledge about federal drug policy” the Obama administration claims. His policies are originate from early 20th century propaganda lies based on racism and big business.

Monty-get rid of your propaganda-Drugs are not only a health issue. Drugs are a criminal issue. Drugs come into this country via the open borders and are grown in this country by the anti-criminalizing drug crowd. Drugs that are grown and manufactured for health reasons are different animals all together. Drugs that are sold to addicts illegally prolifigate crimes all around, from the social destruction of families through addiction to the crimes on lawful citizens through theft(for drug money)and violent crimes(for drug money)(gangs)including murder. This is the point where it no longer becomes a “health issue” but a death issue and that is a crime! Never ever decriminalize and tax drugs-it has been tried and failed in other countries miserably.
Yes this does expose the endless whirlpool of hypocrisy from the left. We the people are sick of it all!

Never ever decriminalize and tax drugs-it has been tried and failed in other countries miserably. Posted by: ctay>>>>WOULD YOU PLEASE SHARE THE NAMES OF THOSE COUNTRIES WITH THE REST OF US? I’ve never heard of them or is it a lie?

You mean like in Holland which has a far, far, lower rate of addicts than the US even though drugs are decriminalized. Your right almost no drug crime and very few addicts does mean decriminalization was a miserable miserable failure.

ANGIE IN PA SAID:HOPE After the Deadly Shooting In AL Yesterday, And The shooting In IL Sunday. President Obama and Congress CHANGE The Gun Laws so Guns dont end up in the Hands of Maniacs And Innocent people Keep Dying! time to CHANGE THE GUN LAWS!
Angie you are so right-I truly hope and pray that our government loosens the gun regulations so much that every lawful citizen can own 2 or 3 each so they can defend themselves against the millions of criminals who illegally own guns-its the only way to fight them. Glad you agree. Criminals are criminals. A criminal does not obey the laws. A criminal will have a gun whether there are antigun regulations or not. Mexico has a gun ban-see how well that works there? We in this country have the right to bear arms as per our constitution. Not for hunting, not for show, but specifically for protection from criminals and a tyrant government. We are willing to allow our government that we hire to work for us to regulate guns minimally for the lawful gun owner in order to ensure that the government knows we are lawful-the criminals are not using registered weapons and they are definitely not going to obey gun regulation laws-hence the only way to fight criminals owning guns is a well armed populace. Just ask the J.Hudson from Chicago-where firearms are banned when her ENTIRE FAMILY WAS KILLED-do you think the guy who killed them obeyed the antigun laws? No only the dead family obeyed them.

i am a coservative and drugs should be decriminalized and treated as a health issues if abused as is alchohol and prescription drugs. crime will go down as it it did in the 20s and a whole group of folks will have to find new jobs, those groups are gang members, cops and prison employees.

Kerlikowske should follow Robert Wakefield’s (Michael Douglas) lead in “Traffic,” and refrain from accepting this position.
After all “If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don’t know how you wage war on your own family.

Clay, you clearly have NO understanding of your own history. And as to what you are “sick of”, I am sick of people telling me that I am a criminal for having a few hits of cannabis for my depression while they smoke their cigarettes and drink their scotch.
It’s time that yo ugrow up and learn something: Prohibition has NEVER worked, anywhere it’s been tried. All it’s ever done is to grow a new criminal class and increase violence.
I propose that we treat people as adults and let them do with their own bodies what they want. If they screw up and beat up someone or rob a store, then bust them for THAT, not for having a joint in their pocket. It’s called RESPONSIBILITY. Rather than screw with the 830,000 of us we do every year for weed, let’s deal withthose who hurt someone ELSE. You can hurt yourself if you want (even though cannabis has NEVER kileed anyone in over 10,000 years of known use), but as soon as there is a victim involved, it’s an actual crime. How about that? It’s whaqt yo urighties actually scream about, why won’t you actually allow it?
If we can deal with alcohol, which kille 150,000 Americans every year, or cigarettes, which kill 450,000 of us every year, or prescription drugs, which kill 200,000 of us every year, then I don’t see why we can’t deal with something that kills NO ONE.
Learn some history, and back up your statements with fact, or keep it to yourself. I have facts and can list my sources every day of the year, you have lies and can’t back up a thing.

Remember how we got Al Capone.
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Times really change, don’t they. Now we put them in the President’s cabinet and in charge of the IRS.

we need to change the gun laws and other laws to protect ourselves from violence. Possibly we should legalize drugs, especially drugs like marijuana, heroin, mushrooms, lsd, valium, oxycotin, and rohypnol that tend to make people lazier than normal. Still make drugs like speed, cocaine, crack, pcp illegal cause they tend to make people more crazy. We also need to eliminate all these movies, tv, and video games about killing, raping, etc. We are raising children on a diet of perversion and violence then wonder why people go nuts. We also need to outlaw violent rap and heavy metal music that encourages violence, misogny, and dark motifs. We also need to censor the internet since there is a lot of dangerous ideas out there. We need protection Obama! Make some laws to protect us!

Yes drugs are bad. Drug laws are so far beyond bad that you can’t say drugs are bad in the same sentence as drug laws. One BIG problem in this country is that there is no justice, only laws. So there is no relation between the severity of a crime and the amount of punishment. You can hurt no one but yourself and go to jail for years and you can ruin hundreds of peoples lives and go to jail for months then get out and do it again. sick

“Drug Zcar” used to be the name for big time drug pushers, and now they’re ‘leadership’ in governement? What stupidity! Thats not even funny!!! This nation has lost its mind!!!

hmmmmmmmmm get rid of the drug czar but keeps the porn czar change change change :change of fools: change change change change of fools sing it everyone

“Today’s presence in the Cabinet of Biden — credited with having coined the term “drug czar” in 1982 — is the reason the White House today says Kerlikowske does not need Cabinet rank.
The Obama administration “is fortunate to have a vice president with an unrivaled breadth of knowledge about federal drug policy,” says an administration official. “Never before has there been someone with this level of knowledge who is as close to the president as Vice President Biden. The vice president will work closely with the director-designate to oversee both the international and domestic anti-drug efforts.”
LOL, well, well, well…
Who knew Joe Biden was one step under Superman! He is the head of the Middle Calss task Force, In charge of the “stimulator”, & now The nation’s pseudo “Drug Czar” !

Decriminalze. Spend money on REHAB, and you will get productive taxpayers back into society. Criminalize and you STILL will have addicts, and drug sex orgies on every college campus, and there will STILL be addicts, except they will be on drugs and STILL using drugs surprisingly (sarcasm!) in PRISON, on the taxpayer dime! The states NEED the money, the addicts NEED to get off the junk; What, does this make too much sense! Yup! Politicans like to get big money from the military, prison, pharmaecutical drug complex, and moralists who use and abuse alcohol and cigarettes and prescription drugs that are more toxic and deadly (and proven so in clinical trials yet STILL approved by the Ahem, FDA) than the “illegal drugs” they proclaim to detest, will continue to enforce and advocate the dreadful and harmful status quo on the “War on Drugs.”

“let the criminals go free”
Been to SF lately??????

Time to wake up Mr. President!!! Drug Policy causes considerably more harm than drugs. We voted for CHANGE not another stupid Czar. If you want to fix the drug problem you have to take the Profit Motive Out of It. Can anyone think of a Czar who did anything of value. I hate the whole Czar concept.

Talk about ruining families, the DEA has put more people in jail for one marijuana cigarette than for murder. Since people are desperate they turn to whatever they can to make money so the repubs can play games and hope that America fails.
Did none of you people read what happened when we had alcohol prohibition?? More criminals, more money for private prisons.
Beside, Budwiser can’t stand any competetion since they don’t want you growing a weed for free in your own yard. Booze and cigarettes kill many, many more people than drugs. Drug Czar, wasted lives and wasted money.
BTW, crazy people with guns kill people and most people with guns are crazy.

BTW, street drugs will never ever be legalized because the majority of growing areas are in nations run by military dictators that we dispise. It’s mostly about the macroeconomics, not just addiction.

You folks have serious teleprompter issues, and our country is reeling from multiple problems…now do you understand why you are no longer in charge??you can’t identify the problems..ergo…you can’t fix them…

Legalize, tax and regulate all “illegal” drugs. First, the legal drugs like Oxycontin, Percocet, etc are much more dangerous and provide actual gateways to heroin use. Anyone who grows up seeing heroin addicts will probably not choose to use it. (I know it stopped me). However, cannabis does not belong in the same class as it is less harmful than alcohol. Hell, it would be one of the few things we could manufacture in the U.S. since all industry and jobs for the middle class are being outsourced.

The war on drugs is a grand failure. The drug czar was dreamed up inder the fantasy worl of Ronald Reagan. Too many innocent people have been falsely convicted of bogus drug charges, even with no evidence. Backed by pathatic judges, sloppy lawyers, bad cops, arrogant politicians, lamebrain public defenders, idiot probation departments. THis post should be eliminated. Nothing but a cover for shady behaviour.

don’t know if this was national but there was a big news story here in Atlanta the other day about a guy who spent two months in jail for a “suspicious white powder” on the upholstery of his car that turned out to be deodorant – your tax $ at work…

Yeah man, let’s throw more weed smokers in jail. That will solve the problem.

My…my…my: yet another thing for the Republicans to feel threatened over: listen to them whine!
I am afraid the best thing we could do for the “war on drugs” would be to remove the laws that prohibit “drugs” that can grow by themselves in your garden – and then attack all the others with everything we can afford to muster.
If somebody wants to grow a plant and smoke it or eat it, let them… as long as they do not drive or operate machinery at the same time! (Christians take special note of Genesis 1:29.) But make all imported, manufactured and processed drugs so expensive that nobody will go to the trouble and bother. For those already addicted, provid transitional controlled supplies under medical supervision along with counseling, detox and whatever tools are needed to get off the stuff.
In other words, DESTROY THE MARKET.
That should help stem the tide of drug profits flowing out-of-country, and leave the cartels here and there running into bankruptcy. Poetic justice in very truth! Mexico might actually become a safe place to visit again!

The last three presidents admitted smoking marijuana. Bush did it secretly in his interview with Tim Wead, which went public and then mostly disappeared (try finding an audio clip of the tape on line…I can’t), and Clinton “didn’t inhale,” which doesn’t absolve him.
Hypocrisy on the part of all three…they can do it. The rest of America goes to jail for it. That simply doesn’t wash. “Do as I say, not as I did….”