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If you’re a national policymaker, there’s a good chance that you’ve thought about this and that laws should change, but you just don’t have the guts to put your job at risk by saying it publicly,” O’Rourke said. “If the national and state policymakers know it’s safe to talk about this in earnest, that will be a significant development."

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Drug War forum organizers looking ahead, not happy about officials’ absence - Newspaper Tree El Paso

O’Rourke said the idea of participating in a forum focusing critically on the War on Drugs so close to the front of the cartel war in Juarez was “too hot for DC to touch.”

Among the officials that the conference organizers invited who did not attend was Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, who did attend the border security conference in El Paso in August.

His office’s spokesman, Darren Bricoe, said Kerlikowske and other officials are in the process of drafting a new national drug that will not address the War on Drugs when it comes out in January.