Under Mr. Obama, Drug Law Enforcement Lapses

Like too many politicians of his generation, President Obama seems to think that proper enforcement of our nation's drug laws would be hypocritical.  We know from David Maraniss's highly acclaimed biography, Barack Obama: The Story, that the marijuana-smoking "Choom Gang" was all too much a part of the young Obama's days at Hawaii's exclusive Punahou prep school.

Last year, the president asserted that smoking marijuana is barely different from smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.  He's wrong: as Family Research Council (FRC) has documented, today's pot is far more potent and thus far more likely to cause grave harm to young people than the marijuana of thirty and forty years ago.

Family Research Council's Marriage and Religion Research Institute has shown how children raised in fragile families are at heightened risk of using drugs.  Such use often begins with the supposedly "benign" use of marijuana, as the National...

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