Salon.com > Mike Guy http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Interview with the Drug Czar http://www.salon.com/2012/07/02/interview_with_the_drug_czar/ http://www.salon.com/2012/07/02/interview_with_the_drug_czar/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:43:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12949089 Officially, Gil Kerlikowske is the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Unofficially, he's known as America's Drug Czar. Tall, affable and impeccably groomed, with an ONDCP lanyard around his neck, Kerlikowske is the former chief of the Seattle Police Department, where he oversaw the force's shift to diverting attention away from arresting people for marijuana possession. When he was nominated by President Barack Obama to run the ONDCP and craft the nation's drug policies, he said, "There is much work to be done." Indeed, there still is. His appointment was viewed with guarded optimism by drug law reform advocates — and in fact Kerlikowske has proven, in this shark-tank political climate, to be far and away the most progressive Drug Czar the country has had.

the fix

Continue Reading...

]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/07/02/interview_with_the_drug_czar/feed/ 14