Wed,
2009-01-21 07:07 — ABN
You wouldn’t know it from their Web site, but it turns out the White House
drug czar’s office is legally required to provide the public with facts that
are, well, factual. Under the Data Quality act, all government agencies,
including the Office of National Drug Control Policy, are responsible for
“ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of
information.”
You could print out the material on ONDCP’s site, throw a dart at the
printout, and probably hit an assertion that’s at least suspect. We picked one
we found particularly egregious – the demonstrably false title of the drug
czar’s publication, “Marijuana: The Greatest Cause of Illegal Drug Abuse.”