The president and his surrogates have not taken a strong stand at the UN special session on drugs meeting this week,despite pushing for domestic changeAs President Obama’s representatives at the UN drug policy summit meeting this week push “alternatives to incarceration” for drug offenses, the president himself will be shaking the hand of Saudi Arabias King Salman – a ruler who has presided over an explosion in drug-related beheadings. The contrast underlines an unfortunate contradiction in the president’s drug policy: for all his willingness to advance reform at domestic, and he has done shrimp to confront grave abuses carried out abroad in the name of the “war on drugs”. In many instances,in fact, his administration has actively enabled such violations.
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Source: theguardian.com