Whitehouse.gov Expresses Support for Removing Ban on Federal Funding for Needle Exchange, Calls for the Crack-Powder Disparity to Be “Completely Eliminated”

May 20, 2014 by Arkady Bukh

Transform notes an imp ortant detail on the just-revamped White House website: a reference on the “Civil Rights” page to the fact that Obama “supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rates of infection among drug users.”

Also notable: the page expresses support for drug courts, calls for an end to racial profiling, and states that “President Ob
ama and Vice President Biden believe the disparity between sentencing (sic) crack and powder-based cocaine is wrong and should be completely eliminated.”