Drug czar McCaffrey, Barry

The metaphor of a war on drugs is misleading, wrote then-Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey in a section of the report titled An Enduring Challenge ... 

February President Clinton appoints General Barry McCaffrey to be the new drug czar. 

Former U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey attempted to find creative anti-drug school-based programs. Critics have questioned the effectiveness of approaches like zero tolerance, which prohibit a well-rounded drug education for students. 

When he took office as the country s Drug Czar in 1996, Barry McCaffrey insisted there was not a shred of scientific evidence that smoking marijuana was useful or necessary. Nevertheless, McCaffrey commissioned yet another report to evaluate the scientific validity of marijuana for patients. The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine undertook an 18-month study of all available scientific evidence on medical marijuana. The 1999 report s authors found that the active components in marijuana appear to be helpful in treating pain, nausea, AIDS-related weight loss,... 

However, you will recall from Chapter 2 that Barry McCaffrey, Drug Czar in the Chnton administration, did include a target about youth alcohol and tobacco use in the 1999 NDCS. Furthermore, there are some federal initiatives in agencies that primarily have functions under the auspices of ONDCP (e.g.. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) which involve underage drinking. Therefore, it is reasonable to ask why more is not being done. 

It is not surprising that the approach to supply reduction in the Clinton and Bush administrations is similar. Barry McCaffrey, the Drug Czar in the Clinton administration, was a military general with experience battling drug smugglers. John... 

Informally known as the nation s dru0 czar, Barry McCaffrey was the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, stepping down from office in January 2001. 

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