Scott Burns - Office of National Drug Control Policy

Scott Burns - Office of National Drug Control Policy

Scott Burns is Deputy Director for State and Local Affairs. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Scott Burns served four elected terms as Iron County Attorney in Cedar City, Utah. He founded the Multi-County Narcotics Task Force... [more]

Scott Burns is Deputy Director for State and Local Affairs. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Scott Burns served four elected terms as Iron County Attorney in Cedar City, Utah. He founded the Multi-County Narcotics Task Force and served as Chairman of the Southern Utah Law Enforcement Agencies Board. He was an Adjunct Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Southern Utah University and an Instructor, as well as Member, of the Board of Directors for the Utah Police Academy. Scott is a graduate of Southern Utah University and received his J.D. from California Western School of Law.

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Meth in Mexico

Just as methamphetamine use in the United States spread west to east, there is fear in Mexico that meth consumption – known as tacha, cristal, piedra, ice, hielo, and glass – will spread from Baja California Norte, Sinaloa, and Michoacan to points west. Recently, public health authorities in Juárez, together with their counterparts in El Paso, launched the “Oscuridad de Cristal” (Darkness of Meth) campaign to warn students and others of the dangers of metamphetamines. While meth use and... Read Full Story

Drugs: The Swiss have got it right

An excellent publication here on Switzerland's heroin experiment: It is abundantly clear that the US's "War on Drugs" has been a destructive, dismal and abject failure. To say it has backfired is an understatement and of course, the real losers are regularJoes trying to get by. Meanwhile hypocrite politicians and society's elite are snorting it up faster than the down-and-outs are inhaling crack and injecting filthy, badly cut heroine. The fact is, everyone knows how badly the War on Drugs... Read Full Story

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