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...says Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "They carry serious short-term and long-term dangers." Those like Leshner who fight the war on drugs overstate these dangers occasionally--and users usually understate them. But one reason ecstasy is so fascinating, and thus dangerous to antidrug crusaders, is that it appears to be a safer drug than heroin and cocaine, at least in the short run, and appears to have more potentially therapeutic benefits...
PLEADED GUILTY. COLONEL JAMES HIETT, 48, former supervisor of U.S. antidrug efforts in Colombia; to concealing knowledge that his wife laundered drug money; in Federal District Court, Brooklyn, N.Y. Hiett admitted paying bills with $25,000 in funds from smuggled heroin. He faces a maximum of three years in prison plus $250,000 in fines...
Needless to say, the exhibit is otherwise irony-free, the DEA not being known as the wackiest of the federal law-enforcement agencies. The tour ends in a mini-theater that plays those particularly gruesome antidrug TV ads that we're used to seeing these days, with troops of hollow-eyed addicts testifying to the dark side of drugs. It forms quite a contrast with the psychedelic posters and love beads in the head-shop window. And it's effective too, at least according to most of the kids on a recent visit. "You have to get their interest before...
...previous President, Ernesto Samper, accused of taking $6 million in campaign contributions from narcotraffickers. But current President Andres Pastrana, who was elected in 1998, is considered a hero in Washington. Senior State Department aides began working with him last year to carve out a long-term aid deal and antidrug alliance...
...idea of government quietly taking a hand in shaping TV programs is also one of those slippery slopes. If Washington can offer financial incentives to work antidrug dialogue into Drew Carey, why not induce NYPD Blue to have Sipowicz plug gun control every time he plugs a suspect? Even worse, depending on who runs Congress, Buffy the Vampire Slayer could end up pro-life one season and pro-choice the next...