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07-25-2009 02:04 PM
Kerlikowske Finds Ideology

7/24/09, 12:34 am EST
This is a major disappointment:

Obama’s drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske hit the road this week to rail against the perils of pot:

“Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit,” he said at an appearance in Fresno, California.

This is a striking departure from what Kerlikowske told me in an interview in May.

Because of the restrictive terms the Vice President’s office imposed on our interview, I’m not at liberty to quote the drug czar directly.

But when I asked Kerlikowske for an example of how he hoped to bring sound science back to Office of National Drug Control Policy, he told me that science would answer whether smoked marijuana has any medical benefit.

That’s a question that science answers, he told me, not ideology.

From this week’s comments, it appears it took just two more months on the job for Kerlikowske’s openness to scientific uncertainty to snap shut in a fit of ideological conviction.

Tim Dickinson

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typical, these guys have no real voice of their own, they are just proxies speaking for the real people in power.

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WHY WHY WHY do they even have this office around?? There NOT A THING in the Constitution on this office at all? When did the states have a Convention to give theses powers to the white house at all? This is whats know has a ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT!!This office under the U.S. Constitution, and the people under this Constitution has no rigth to even be, and misspending of governments funds is a feloney!! Theses people and if needed, Ombama too, should be in jail.When fools dont know the law and make it up as they go, well ya get what ya have now? Peace and POT!!