Tag: Obama Administration

Obama Administration Wanted to Decriminalize Marijuana

President Obama’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was on the verge of pushing for nationwide marijuana decriminalization, but reports show those plans were quickly buried for a variety of political reasons. A former official with the ONDCP recently told the Huffington Post that during President Obama’s first term, the office wanted to make federal marijuana laws less restrictive

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U.S. Attorney General Admits Pot is Not a Gateway Drug

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, speaking to a group of high school students in Kentucky this week, said that marijuana is not a gateway drug, a prominent challenge to the most popular argument used by opponents of legalization. On a speaking tour as part of President Obama’s Prescription Opioid Epidemic Awareness Week, the attorney general said prescription drug abuse, not

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