Obama only continued what Bill Clinton Started.
When Clinton took office in 1993, the U.S. War on Drugs was being fought in Mexico, Central America, and South America by DEA NBRF (Northern Border Response Force) in Mexico, DEA CADENCE (Central America Drug Enforcement Center) in Central America, and DEA Operation Snowcap in South America, but by the election of 1996, Bill Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, had shut them all down.
The Liberal Left Media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN were pushing every Liberal issue to include drugs in an attempt to influence the election in favor of Clinton. Here’s one of ABC’s 1992 “hit pieces” on the “War on Drugs”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1DUmHaGkY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9GqOkAqco
Fixed that for ya.