Whack-a-mole Drug War: Anti-drug border plan puts emphasis on prevention

We will want to see what the "demand reduction" will go for. And apparently drug czar Kerlikowski still isn't ready to really listen to his "colleagues."

Anti-drug border plan puts emphasis on prevention: "The U.S. government’s new plan to slow the flow of drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border features a renewed emphasis on reducing the demand for drugs in both countries.

“One of the most powerful tools we have against that horrific cartel violence is that prevention,” said Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, during a Thursday mid-day news conference at the Border Patrol’s Nogales Station. “I spent 37 years in law enforcement and my colleagues say, ‘You can’t arrest your way out of this drug problem.’ ”

More than $10.6 billion of the $26.2 billion in the President’s 2012 request for the National Drug Control budget is for prevention and treatment, up slightly from the $10.56 billion in the 2011 budget, information from the Office of National Drug Control Policy shows."