Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP—the drug czar's office) head Gil Kerlikowske said Tuesday that the country is "in the midst of a serious national conversation about marijuana"—an at least rhetorical advance from his 2009 position that marijuana legalization is "not in the president's vocabulary and not in mine."
A supergroup of top-brass American Drug Warriors including Drug Czars from the last three presidential administrations - Gil Kerlikowske, John Walters, Barry McCaffrey, Lee Brown, Bob Martinez and William Bennett - have penned a yawningly predictable piece at the Los Angeles Times - but with one twist.