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The Federal Government and War on DrugsStudent’s name:Course title:Date:Professor’s Name:The Federal Government and War on DrugsThe war on drugs involves all effort to do away with possession, use and transportation of drugs in the United States. The federal government has been at the center stage in the fight against drugs for over a century. Laws regarding the use of and possession of drugs keep improving, and changes are made regularly to accommodate the changing nature of today’s society. Most recent of such is the Fair Sentencing Act, signed by President Obama on August 3, 2010, which aimed at reducing the amount of disparity between the amount of crack cocaine and powdered ones needed to trigeer certain America’s criminal penalties from 100:1 to 18:1 ratio. This policy was an act of Congress, implying that it is a legislative-initiated policy. The fact that it comes from the Congress makes it a directive proposed by a legislative body, is broader and more general, which only requires the signature of the President to become a law (Grossman, 2013). The policy also eliminated the 5-year compulsory minimum sentence for mere possession of