U.S. anti-drug czar says legalization won’t solve drug problem

The director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, said that legalizing drugs would not be panacea for drug consumption or drug-related crime. “Neither a single approach of a war on drugs nor an approach of legalization even begins to address how complex the drug problem is in the world,” declared Kerlikowske, speaking at the 17th Annual CAF Conference in Washington.
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