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Trump’s DHS pick is cool with medical marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 12/08/2016

President-elect Donald Trump will soon announce the selection of retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security, The Washington Post has confirmed.

Kelly served as the head of the U.S. Southern Command, a posting that gave him oversight of U.S. security operations for Central America, the Caribbean and the entirety of South America. Trump settled on Kelly in part for his Southwest border expertise, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

In that role, Kelly grappled with issues relating to the international illicit drug trade and the flow of narcotics, including heroin and cocaine, from countries in the Southern Hemisphere to markets in the United States.

Trump has said that drugs are coming over the southern border “at a record clip,” and that building a wall along that border will help address the opiate epidemic in places as far away as New England.

Trump's notions of cross-border drug trafficking aren't supported by the latest federal data, which show drug seizures falling along the southwest border in recent years. And Kelly's own views on the flow of drugs are considerably more nuanced than Trump's.

In an interview with the Military Times earlier this year, Kelly acknowledged that addressing the opiate epidemic is more an issue of decreasing demand for drugs at home than it is a question of cutting off the supply of drugs in the countries from which they originate. (cont'd)

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