President Obama has sent his last budget request to Congress but has been unable to get it passed. The Republican Congress has its own priorities, especially in an election year, and the final budget for Fiscal Year 2017 (FY2017) will be negotiated throughout the coming months. The Obama FY2017 budget, though, reflects the White House’s thinking on a number of issues, especially drug policy and criminal justice reform.

As far as federal drug control funding is concerned the president has asked Congress for $31.07 billion to “reduce drug use and its consequences in the United States.”

That’s an increase of just half a billion dollars (only 1.67 percent) over FY2016. This funding request includes $13.68 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), $4.5 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and $7.93 billion for the Department of Justice (DOJ). That’s a little bit more for the DHHS than its FY 2016 budget (which was $12.71 billion) and a bit less for both the DHS ($4.82 billion) and the DOJ ($8.03 billion).

As part of the DOJ budget, the request for DEA funding for FY2017 is $2.48 billion, just a little more than the $2.42 billion they received in the FY2016 budget deal. It seems that if the DEA needs more money, it will have to come out of the..........http://www.hightimes.com/read/pot-matters-obama%E2%80%99s-last-criminal-justice-budget

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