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Mark Souder
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Mark Souder, a Republican, is a member of the United States House of Representatives, for the state of Indiana. He is co-founder and co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Drug Policy.
Until the start of the 110th Congress, Souder was chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources. The subcommittee had authorizing jurisdiction over the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP, known popularly as "the Drug Czar's Office"), and it oversaw all U.S. Government anti-narcotics operations, both foreign and domestic.
Representative Souder is an ardent supporter of the War on Drugs, and below are some examples of his involvment:
- In March 2006, President Bush signed into law the Methamphetamine Epidemic Elimination Act, which represented the most comprehensive anti-meth legislation ever passed by Congress. Souder authored much of this law, which targets meth trafficking at local and state, national, and international levels.
- In December 2006, the President signed into law the ONDCP Reauthorization Act, which Souder had authored and introduced. The law reauthorizes the office of "the Drug Czar" for five years.
On February 9th, 2007 Souder appeared as a guest on MSNBC's "The Situation With Tucker Carlson." Souder said that the high THC content of today's marijuana makes it much stronger than "the ditch weed" of the 1960s and 1970s. The Congressman later went on to say that "no drug user is a single drug user" and goes on to clarify that "a marijuana user is very seldom just a casual marijuana user," to which Carlson said he was wrong based upon users he knows.