The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (more commonly known as the drug czar’s office) released its 2012 National Drug Control Strategy today. The strategy is nearly identical to previous national drug strategies. While the rhetoric is new — reflecting the fact that three-quarters of Americans consider the drug war a failure — the substance of the actual policies is the same.
EDIT: This is the academic study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association which is the source of the numbers in the graph. Other sources may be found here.
EDIT #TWO: Replaced the graph with a modified version I made to make it more factually accurate. Many thanks to filigree for explaining to my veeeeery rusty on stats self how to do that correctly.
