Analysis Drug Policy Alliance: President Obama Makes History by Focusing Country’s Attention on Mass Incarceration and Failed Drug War by Gary Kopycinski on July 17, 2015 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Analysis: Martha Washington’s Enslaved Maid Ona Judge Made a Daring Escape to Freedom – but the National Park Service Has Erased Her Story From Philadelphia Exhibit February 14, 2026 Always Watching: How ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation November 10, 2025 Full-blown Fascism Has Arrived in America as the Pentagon Expels the Press October 16, 2025 Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 17, 2015. President Obama made history this week by focusing our country’s attention on mass incarceration and the failed drug war.