The Push For Legalizing Marijuana Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality they affect all of us - users and non-users. The current drug policy of our government is obviously failing. After 130 years of being legal, Harry J. Anslingler, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of, brought the potential problems of marijuana into the public eye(Goldman 88). With the added public pressure, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sig