Is Obama Evolving on Marijuana?
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(The Root) -- On Wednesday the Obama administration unveiled a new strategy for its drug policy. The location of the rollout was noteworthy. It took place at Johns Hopkins University, located in Baltimore, a city so ravaged by the effects of drugs that it served as the backdrop to the hit television show The Wire, which chronicled the impact of drug crime on a community.
Perhaps the most significant component of the new strategy is that the White House is making a commitment to work to reform laws and restrictions that penalize drug offenders by limiting their employment, housing and educational prospects. (As The Root covered previously, students convicted of drug offenses can lose federal financial aid.)
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/blogging-beltway/obama-evolving-marijuana?wpisrc=root_more_news
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(The Root) -- On Wednesday the Obama administration unveiled a new strategy for its drug policy. The location of the rollout was noteworthy. It took place at Johns Hopkins University, located in Baltimore, a city so ravaged by the effects of drugs that it served as the backdrop to the hit television show The Wire, which chronicled the impact of drug crime on a community.
Perhaps the most significant component of the new strategy is that the White House is making a commitment to work to reform laws and restrictions that penalize drug offenders by limiting their employment, housing and educational prospects. (As The Root covered previously, students convicted of drug offenses can lose federal financial aid.)
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/blogging-beltway/obama-evolving-marijuana?wpisrc=root_more_news
