The Trump Administration’s Drug Policies: Subnational Trends and Challenges

Abstract

The United States faces many challenges regarding its current drug policies. This work analyzes several critical junctures to determine shifts in drug policy from the eight years of the Obama administration to the first 10 months of the Trump government. The speech acts of the Trump administration indicate that the federal government is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana. The article begins by examining the U.S. drug war. It then assesses the issue of states’ rights and drug policy. The third section evaluates the Trump administration´s drug policies, focusing on the national and subnational challenges