Let's Try It This Way...Under What Instances, Is It Okay To Praise The President On DU ???

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. I give Obama good grades on drug policy, although that will elicit some howls.

He and Holder have been very good on sentencing reform, especially around the hideous crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity, which affects almost exclusively black people. And now, they're actually asking drug war prisoners to apply for clemency.

The Obama administration has not threatened other countries that are enacting or contemplating drug reforms. That's a first.

And they're dealing with medical marijuana and marijuana legalization in a relatively enlightened way. Yeah, there have been raids on medical marijuana people and some of them are rotting in federal prison, but that seems to have lessened in the past couple of years--partly because people know what the Justice Department is going to go after, and partly because Justice has largely limited itself to people who violate its guidelines.

But Obama is basically allowing state-level legalization to take place. They could have fought it in various ways, but they haven't.