{"id":6659,"date":"2012-09-25T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/the-golden-mean-of-drug-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:23:14","slug":"the-golden-mean-of-drug-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/the-golden-mean-of-drug-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Mean of Drug Policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US drug czar claims his government is paving the way to a progressive, innovative and science-based drug policy – watch our video featuring his speech and read our blog!<\/p>\n

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Mr. Gil Kerlikowske, head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), or as he is generally called, the \u201cDrug Czar\u201d, is the official voice of President Obama on drug issues. He is not a drug warrior: as Seattle police chief, he considered marijuana possession to be a low law-enforcement priority, and as drug czar he signaled that the Obama Administration would no longer use the term “War on Drugs”, because it is a war on people. He favours a medicalization approach instead and has embraced the disease concept of addiction. In his speech at the drug policy pre-conference in Washington DC on July 20 (featured in our video below), he was trying to outline a golden mean of drug policy, the \u201c21st century approach to drug policy\u201d, that is \u201cprogressive, innovative and science based\u201d, and that sets the balance between the war on drugs and legalization.<\/p>\n