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During the President Obmama administration focus switched from charging and inprisoning

people guilty of drug reltaed crimes to a focus on rehabilitation and anti-drig programs.
What caused and/or contriuted to this change in focus?

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During the presidency of Barack Obama, the American government faced a profound reform in relation to the assessment of the different crimes and drug offenses carried out by individuals within the framework of the development of their private activities, that is, it went from criminalizing drug use to taking addicts as sick people, searching through different strategies their recovery and not their criminalization. On the other hand, the government's efforts began to focus not on catching and judging the drug users but the producers and traffickers of it.

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