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Article: Drug war realism from federal official.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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DURING HIS immersion in his new job, Gil Kerlikowske attended a focus group of 7-year-old girls and was mystified by their talk about "farm parties." Then he realized they meant "pharm parties" -- sampling pharmaceuticals from their parents' medicine cabinets.
What he learned is that his job has wrinkles unanticipated when he became director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
"People," he says, "want a different conversation" about drug policies. With his first report to the president early next year, he could increase the quotient of realism.
Law enforcement has a "can-do culture," but it also instructs its practitioners about what ...