Word: antidrug
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...halted for good. "Is it fair to the Banueloses of the world--who joined the Marines knowing they may go fight in a war and die--that in the conduct of their duties they could end up spending their life in jail for murder?" asks a top Pentagon antidrug official. "We're giving this a real hard look now, and I don't think these kinds of missions will resume...
...unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come-on--it's so sinful you have to pay to see it--in Tell Your Children, a silly antidrug screed produced by a Los Angeles church group. After he added some skin, Esper retitled the film Reefer Madness and made a bundle...
Weil sent repeated letters to health officials in Washington, requesting a small amount of the marijuana the government kept for research of its own. Not surprisingly, he received repeated refusals. Ultimately, Harvard had to intervene, endorsing the study on the strength of the impeccable antidrug credentials Weil had earned as a result of the Leary-Alpert affair. Not long after, federal officials relented. "One day," says Woodward Wickham, Weil's Harvard roommate and now a vice president at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, "this box of government marijuana just arrived in the mail...
...Washington expected the news. Bill Clinton's antidrug czar Barry McCaffrey heard it from the State Department, which had found out about it from reporters. The Drug Enforcement Administration was caught flat-footed, as was the CIA. At a press conference, a chagrined Attorney General Janet Reno said, "What I learned was at the point after the arrest was made...
...would Zedillo fail to send an early warning when Gutierrez was first suspected--and as a result embarrass the Administration? The timing was especially unfortunate. The arrest took place less than two weeks before Clinton is to send his annual report to Congress certifying Mexico's commitment to the antidrug effort. While Clinton will not decertify Mexico, the news undercuts his claim that antidrug cooperation has improved under Zedillo. Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Angel Gurria, visiting Washington last week, was abruptly summoned to the White House for a reprimand...