appearing on cltv's "politics tonight" this evening, host paul lisnek asked her why she envoked reagan'sking about the war on drugs at what a failure if has been for the last 30 years. drug use has not gone down and we have detained and incarcerated large numbers of young people particularly african-americans and latinos for drug possession for a very modest amounts. president nixon is generally credited with starting the war on drugs... but critics say reagan strongly used the issue for political purposes in the 1980's. preckwinkle said she's glad chicago recently decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana... with police writing tickets instead of incarcerating more people. to the weather center. we have a warm up on the way. look at this temperature forecast and we go from today's seven days to the mid '80s tomorrow. '90s thursday and by friday lower and mid friday and '90s. and in the tropics it is a isaac. it was named today as the tropical storm with 35 mi. per hour winds cullet poorly organized but over warm water. there you see the spaghetti track from all the differe

university of illinois her audience gasped at the remark on the politics tonight show here on c ltv host paul lisnek asked her why she invoked his name president nixon is generally credited with the beginning of the war on drugs some critics believe ronald reagan exploited the issue for political purposes toni preckwinkle praised chicagos decision to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and punish offenders with tickets instead of jail time indiana attorney general is opening an investigation into the bp gasoline recall to make sure that consumers rights to taken into consideration bp has recalled more than 2 million gal. of gasoline indiana that fuel has a high level of president is not burn like it should if it can cause a vehicle to stall but experts say the engine should be fine once the contaminated gas is flashed customers with approved claims will be reversedreimbursed for their repairs to file a claim go to the bp response.com web site health officials in the chicago area and throughout illinois are keeping a close eye on cases of west nile virus in the summer that has seen