Obama’s Drug Czar Lies to Congress About Drug War Budget
Federal drug policy officials in recent years have done everything they can to send the message that they have a balanced, health-focused strategy that acknowledges drug abuse is a medical problem we can’t arrest our way out of. While Obama administration officials often use fuzzy math or artful language to obscure the fact that most federal drug control funding actually still goes toward failed strategies like arrests, incarceration and overseas interdiction, they rarely lie outright.
But Michael Botticelli, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), did just that at a Congressional hearing on Wednesday.
“The vast majority of the resources that ONDCP and the federal government looks at are really for enhanced prevention and treatment programs,” he said in testimony during a U.S. House hearing on reauthorizing his agency.
Just one problem: Prevention and treatment only comprise less than half of the federal drug war...
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