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,... 

On February 29,1996, retired Army general Barry McCaffrey was sworn in as President Clinton s new director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and was given the responsibility for overseeing counter-drug operations in Central and South American countries. Between 80 and 90% of the cocaine consumed in the United States at the time was either produced and/or distributed in Columbia, as well as some 60% of the heroin. His efforts have been only partly successful. 

In 1997 the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), General Barry McCaffrey, faced a big public relations problem. Even though McCaffrey, several former presidents, and many others lobbied against medical marijuana initiatives in California and Arizona, the citizens of those states voted to legalize medical marijuana. McCaffrey stuck to his conviction that marijuana was not medicine and vowed that the federal government would prosecute patients and doctors who broke federal marijuana laws. 

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. 

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... 

Vanessa McCaffrey, Albion College Keith T. Mead, Mississippi State University James A. Miranda, Sacramento State University David A. Modarelli, University of Akron Thomas W. Ott, Oakland University Hasan Palandoken, Western Kentucky University Gloria Silva, Carnegie Mellon University Barry B. Snider, Brandeis University David A. Spiegel, Yale University Paul G. Williard, Brown University Shmuel Zbaida, Rutgers University Eugene Zubarev, Rice University... 

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