Congress Recommends $145 Million For Drug Office

DdC · 11-13-2003, 09:55 PM

Washington -- The White House youth anti-drug ad campaign apparently won't have have to be scaled back as much as first feared.

A House-Senate conference committee last night recommended a $145 million appropriation for the campaign, a figure far closer to the House's $150 million figure than the Senate's $100 million. President Bush had requested $170 million for the campaign, after receiving $150 million last year.

Higher budgets in past

In past years, the campaign's budget has been between $175 million and $180 million.

Not all the money appropriated has been spent on advertising, as the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy used some of it to fund studies of the advertising's effectiveness and public relations activities to support the ad campaign. In turn, spending on non-media activities has drawn congressional scrutiny.

The conference committee required 78% of the new money go toward actual media buying. WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather, New York, handles the campaign, while the Partnership for a Drug-Free America produces most of the advertising.

Pending legislation

Ogilvy's future on the account, meanwhile, has yet to be determined. A draft of legislation reauthorizing the ad campaign being drawn by Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, would require the contract be re-bid, with Ogilvy -- which settled charges for $1.8 million that it overbilled the government -- excluded. That legislation, however, had yet to be introduced as of this morning and action on it won't take place until next year.

While the idea of the ad campaign has some strong congressional backing, some legislators have questioned the campaign's effectiveness, as have some groups backing legalized marijuana use.

"We continue to believe that the appropriate funding level is zero, as this program is a proven failure according to the surveys designated by Congress as measures of ONDCP's success," Steve Fox, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, said today.

Final vote uncertain

Despite the conference committee's approval of the drug office spending as part of a transportation and postal appropriations bill, there was some confusion today on whether the overall measure would proceed to a final vote next week.

Congress is going in two directions to fund the government, moving ahead on individual appropriations bills for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1 -- like the one containing the drug office money -- while also preparing a catchall bill to temporarily authorize continued spending at last year's levels if agreement can't be reached on individual bills.

Note: Budget Cut Less Than Expected; Ogilvy's Fate Uncertain.

Congress Recommends $145 Million For Drug Office By Ira Teinowitz
Source: AdAge.com November 13, 2003
Contact: editor@adage.com * Website

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DdC · 11-13-2003, 09:57 PM

Yet the DEA, NIDA, VISTA, the "War on Drugs," and now-deceased writer Peggy Mann (in Reader's Digest articles and her book Marijuana Alert, wilth foreward by Nancy Reagan) have used these discredited studies on parents' groups such as Parents for a Drug Free Youth, etc., often with Nahas as a highly paid guest lecturer, without a word of how his studies are really considered by this peers.

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DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,117 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 51 Thanked 607 Times in 399 Posts	Congress Recommends $145 Million For Drug Office Washington -- The White House youth anti-drug ad campaign apparently won't have have to be scaled back as much as first feared. A House-Senate conference committee last night recommended a $145 million appropriation for the campaign, a figure far closer to the House's $150 million figure than the Senate's $100 million. President Bush had requested $170 million for the campaign, after receiving $150 million last year. Higher budgets in past In past years, the campaign's budget has been between $175 million and $180 million. Not all the money appropriated has been spent on advertising, as the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy used some of it to fund studies of the advertising's effectiveness and public relations activities to support the ad campaign. In turn, spending on non-media activities has drawn congressional scrutiny. The conference committee required 78% of the new money go toward actual media buying. WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather, New York, handles the campaign, while the Partnership for a Drug-Free America produces most of the advertising. Pending legislation Ogilvy's future on the account, meanwhile, has yet to be determined. A draft of legislation reauthorizing the ad campaign being drawn by Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, would require the contract be re-bid, with Ogilvy -- which settled charges for $1.8 million that it overbilled the government -- excluded. That legislation, however, had yet to be introduced as of this morning and action on it won't take place until next year. While the idea of the ad campaign has some strong congressional backing, some legislators have questioned the campaign's effectiveness, as have some groups backing legalized marijuana use. "We continue to believe that the appropriate funding level is zero, as this program is a proven failure according to the surveys designated by Congress as measures of ONDCP's success," Steve Fox, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, said today. Final vote uncertain Despite the conference committee's approval of the drug office spending as part of a transportation and postal appropriations bill, there was some confusion today on whether the overall measure would proceed to a final vote next week. Congress is going in two directions to fund the government, moving ahead on individual appropriations bills for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1 -- like the one containing the drug office money -- while also preparing a catchall bill to temporarily authorize continued spending at last year's levels if agreement can't be reached on individual bills. Note: Budget Cut Less Than Expected; Ogilvy's Fate Uncertain. Congress Recommends $145 Million For Drug Office By Ira Teinowitz Source: AdAge.com November 13, 2003 Contact: editor@adage.com * Website Related Articles Senators Join Critics Of ONDCP Program Ogilvy Faces Anti-Drug Challenge in Senate Partnership Gets Sarcastic In Latest Anti-Pot Spot Assassins of Youth Congress Prepares to Trim ONDCP Media Budget Poison is legal, just not pot Patriot Act used to bust Strip Club This article says the Patriot Act was not about terrorism but to fight any crime- Score One For The Good Guys Dems on Drugs: Any Questions? Benzie County: Chamber Nixes NORML Drugczar Carlton Turner: One Man & His Drug Scams One Man & His Drug Scams Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing. Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974 The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys Naha's Prescription for Bloated Police Budges Gabriel Nahas, in 1998, is living in Paris and goes around Europe teaching as gospel the same old lies to less informed Europeans. When asked to debate us (H.E.M.P.) on cannabis before the world press on June 18, 1993 in Paris, he first enthusiastically accepted until he found out that we would be speaking on all aspects of the hemp plant (e.g. paper, fiber, fuel, medicine). Then he declined, even though we met all of his requirements. Incredibly, a famous study which found that cannabis reduces tumors (see Chapter 7), was originally ordered by the Federal Government on the premise that pot would hurt the immune system. This was based on the "Reefer Madness" studies done by the disreputable Dr. Gabriel Nahas of Columbia University in 1972. Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74 Old, discredited Nahas studies are still trotted out by the Drug Enforcement Administration today, and deliberately given to unknowledgeable parents' groups, churches, and PTAs as valid research regarding the evils of pot. * Nahas, in December 1983, under ridicule from his peers and a funding cut-off from NIDA renounced all his old THC metabolite build-up and unique chromosome petri dish tissue damage studies, conclusions, and extrapolations.

11-13-2003, 09:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,117 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 51 Thanked 607 Times in 399 Posts	Yet the DEA, NIDA, VISTA, the "War on Drugs," and now-deceased writer Peggy Mann (in Reader's Digest articles and her book Marijuana Alert, wilth foreward by Nancy Reagan) have used these discredited studies on parents' groups such as Parents for a Drug Free Youth, etc., often with Nahas as a highly paid guest lecturer, without a word of how his studies are really considered by this peers. The DEA, after Nahas' 1983 waffling renouncement, consciously and criminally continues to use his studies to polarize ignorant judges, politicians, press, and parent groups, who are unaware of Nahas' denouncement. These groups trust the government to tell them the truth their tax dollars paid for. Most of the media, press, and television commentators still use Nahas' 1970s, unreplicated studies as gospel, and much of the frightening folklore and street myths taht are whispered around school yards spring from the deceitful "scientist's" work. What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis. William Randolph Hearst Essay "Marihuana influences Negroes to to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice." Hearst newspapers nationwide, 1934 William Randolph Hearst (29/4/1863 - 14/8/1951, USA) Reefer Madness through the ages In the 1920's From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support? Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism. The Marijuana Conviction THE DEMONIZATION OF MARIHUANA Jack Herer Chapter 15 Debunking Gutter Science Text version down: Jack Herer: The Emperor Of Hemp Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp Dedication to Captain Ed The Electric Emperor Wears No Clothes Interview: Jack Herer Terrorism Link in Drug Ads Whips Up Backlash Drug War' Opponents Blast White House Policy Drug Czar Accused of Supporting Terror Follow-up on USA Today ads by Ron Crickenberger + ad __________________ Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol then Ganja//Hemp.

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