Those looking for the denizens of the current White House to have any coherent strategy about anything probably would be better off looking for comfort in the demon weed.
In an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd Sunday, DHS Secretary John Kelly said that marijuana was “not a factor” in the drug war (methamphetamines, cocaine and heroin were, he said). He seemed to change his tone Tuesday in a speech at George Washington University, according to a copy of prepared remarks provided by DHS.
“And let me be clear about marijuana. It is a potentially dangerous gateway drug that frequently leads to the use of harder drugs,” Kelly said, adding: “Its use and possession is against federal law and until the law is changed by the U.S. Congress we in DHS are sworn to uphold all the laws on the books.”
So it's both "not a factor" in the drug war and, as per our new and deeply weird attorney general, a "dangerous gateway drug" and a part of that drug war. This would appear to be another case where Trump's new government officials are desperately trying to come up with a policy without being told what the policies are, then having to adjust course every time they're yelled at for piping up with a policy that doesn't mesh with the next guy's.
You can't tell me that Donald Trump has given any thought whatsoever to "drug war" policies. Unless there's an opportunity for Trump-branded heroin out there, he ain't interested. That leaves Jeff Sessions, who is racist-grandpa-level nuts about any subject you can possibly name, and John Kelly, whose reputation as competent person took a serious hit after agreeing to sign on for a tour with the good ship Trumptanic, to work things out on their own. The end result is that there's simply not going to be any coherent policy for a while yet, because nobody knows what to do and Jared Freaking Kushner can't be in every office at the same time.
That's probably for the best. A Trump administration paralyzed by their own incompetence for four years would be considerably better than most of the other possibilities that await us.