White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs'
The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting "a war on drugs," a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use.
In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said Wednesday the bellicose analogy was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues.
"We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen."
~ Gen. Barry McCaffrey - Former Drug Czar (Clinton)
McCaffrey Advocates Prevention, Treatment By Jesse J. Holland
CN Source: S.F. Gate January 03, 2001
The longtime rallying cry of a ``war on drugs'' to describe the effort to curtail illegal drug use in the United States has become ``misleading'' the White House drug policy director says.
A more accurate comparison is to the fight against cancer -- ``Prevention coupled with treatment accompanied by research,''
~ Barry McCaffrey said in his final report on America's drug problem.
New Drug Czar Is Seeking Ways to Bolster His Hand
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN
Published: Sunday, March 17, 1996
General McCaffrey knows a war when he sees one, first in Vietnam and more recently in the Persian Gulf, where he led the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. So it seemed remarkable that during an hourlong interview in his Washington office, he avoided the cliche of a war on drugs.
"The analogy of cancer is far more adaptive and useful as a model to a way of thinking and talking about the problem," the general said.
"The whole notion that someone could be a drug czar simply reflects ignorance of how the American Government works,"
~ Prof. Mark A. R. Kleiman,
a drug-policy expert at Harvard University.
Just Do What? By Jacob Sullum
The drug war's empty promises
The press coverage of President Clinton's "new national strategy to fight drug abuse" did not shed much light on the pros and cons of the administration's plan. But it did reveal something significant: Supporters of the war on drugs are starting to babble, and no one seems to care.
But wait. McCaffrey has another metaphor up his sleeve: "He compares the drug problem to a cancer that requires treatment, cautioning listeners not to expect victory for at least 10 years."
How America Lost the War on Drugs
Ben Wallace-WellsPosted Dec 13, 2007
After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure.
In 1996, less than a year into his term, the new drug czar met Jim Burke, a smooth-talking, silver-haired executive who chaired the Partnership for a Drug-Free America — the advertising organization best known for the slogan "This is your brain on drugs." "Burke personally was very hard to resist," one of his former colleagues tells me. "I've seen him sell many conservative members of Congress and also liberals like Mario Cuomo."
US: McCaffrey's Brain On Drugs 05/04/00
What Mr. Barry R. McCaffrey objects to is that someone would give his unfortunate offspring marijuana or cocaine for the psychotropic effects these substances have. I assume that this is because his children will need a lot of psychotropic substances to ease the pain of knowing that their father is a bigoted jerk who likes to see people suffer for no reason and that Mr. Barry R. McCaffrey does not want his children hitting him up for cash all the time in order to try different drugs to see if the emotional pain and embarrassment will go away.
OK lets wrap this Ganjawar thing up. Nixon lied to Congress and rejected his own tax paid study to start the Controlled Substance Act for greed and control, not helping kids. By including Hemp and Rx Ganja, not included in the 1937 Tax Act. He eliminated competition for fossil fools, trees, steel, paper, meat, dairy, plastic, lubricants and thousands of medicinal and health care products. While bloating the Prison/Police Industrial Complex, World Bankster interest and the Military. As well as our global stash of DEA officiates. Black budgets funding elections, coups and Contras. Could you order a better agenda for a few filthy rich to prosper at the expense of the blue collar labor pool. Gutting Fort Knox to pay off their trillion dollar gambling debts.. High unemployment is an incentive against whistleblowing. Dangling that j-o-b carrot like trickle down voodoo economics.
We're still just numbers and still we argue each other over the hobgoblins they toss, like bones to stray hungry dogs. Afraid of the chance of our good names or vested ignorance getting exposed? Cozy closet tokers. Or the expert soothsayers predicting futures and legislating moronality. The system is what is rotten and the Ganjawar is only a leg of the octopus with several DNCGOPerversions from NAFTA/GATT to the Higher Education Ax maintaining dysfunction. Prison slave labor is Constitutionally legal! Cheaper than the freight from Wallmart Streets China sweatshops. That is cheaper than made in the USA. Research is banned! 95% busted, cop a plea to avoid mandatory minimum sentencing deterrents to jury trials. Stigmatizing stoners for the very same applications as for racist stigmatizing or gender stigmatizing or any stigmatizing. For a means to an end. Can't keep someone down if they're innocent. Have to make em guilty or at least feel guilty or threatened. Absolutely nothing wrong with smoking Ganja. Thousand year old practice with no toxic reactions or deaths. Comparing it to chemical cigarettes is as false as the Gateway and Mo Potent than yo mama Grimm Fairytales.
Logical if family farms, Indians and poor Mexicans could grow Hemp and utilize the seed, oil and fiber as Canada and 30 other countries do. Spurting the textiles growth and a Willie Nelson biodiesel truckstop for local communities. They could sustain their villages and lessen the tax burden. Only threatening Ag Chem Biz and farm labor exploitation profits. Getting back to the traditional ways of organic food and natural fiber, not cottons 90 million pounds of poisons. Aborting more bible belt op rescue babies than Roe V Wade. OK for asbestos to cancerize US towns populations, DDT PCB Aspartame and Agent Orange drugs aren't even scheduled. Mental Illness and Drug Addiction aren't on most health insurance menu's. "Treatment" Asylums bars are as thick as prisons, without a crime even needed. Mandatory "treatment" is like getting answers from torture. Anything you say mon. 3000 kids raped in juvenile prison each year. PTSD isn't scheduled either.
7.4.9 D.C. Convergence
The Global Ganja Gathering of 2009
4/20 @ 4:20
The Politics of Food
W.R. Grace Acquitted in Libby, Montana Asbestos Case
Cheney was the head of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, and he made out well. He took the company from making $100 million in US contracts to $2.3 billion in the five years he was there, so a large increase for the company. In fact, he made some very bad business decisions. He bought up a company that had a billion dollars in asbestos liability.
Nix on Nixon....
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