Drug Czar Fights Drugs (sort of)
Yesterday everyone's three favorite cabinet members- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, HHS Head Michael Leavitt, and Drug Czar John Waters (sadly, not Michael Douglas)--traveled to Nashville, TN to unveil the President's new plan to combat this country's meth problem. Well, at least part of this country.
This is great, right, the president gets it, and he cares! Not exactly. Neither in yesterday's speeches or in the press release detailing the new spending plan, is the crystal meth problem in the gay community mentioned. Not even once. And as anyone who has walked down 8th ave between 23rd and 14th knows, meth is at least as big a problem in the gay community as it is in trailer parks in flyover states.
The government's plan: www.MethResources.gov
Feds Target Meth With Money: WaPo
Higher Risk: The New Yorker
That Newsweek Cover Story
This is great, right, the president gets it, and he cares! Not exactly. Neither in yesterday's speeches or in the press release detailing the new spending plan, is the crystal meth problem in the gay community mentioned. Not even once. And as anyone who has walked down 8th ave between 23rd and 14th knows, meth is at least as big a problem in the gay community as it is in trailer parks in flyover states.
The government's plan: www.MethResources.gov
Feds Target Meth With Money: WaPo
Higher Risk: The New Yorker
That Newsweek Cover Story
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