article_snippet: Barack Obama talks to its creator about the drug war .
article_snippet: Barack Obama said people looking for solutions to the drug war need to 'humanize what so often, on the local news, is just a bunch of shadowy characters and tell people stories.'
article_snippet: Disaffected: Barack Obama said solutions to the drug war needed to 'humanize what so often, on the local news, is just a bunch of shadowy characters and tell shadowy characters stories' which The Wire had helped with .
article_snippet: What the drugs don't destroy, the drug war the drugs tears apart,' he said.
highlights_snippet: Said The Wire had helped 'humanize' people in the drug war .
  
highlights_snippet: Co-writer David Simon said war against destroyed what drugs hadn't already .
  