Word: czars
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When President Clinton's drug czar, General Barry R. McCaffrey, spoke at the Kennedy School last week, he said that the medical use of marijuana "ought to be looked at and will be looked at." Such sane sensibility, however, has been rare of late from both the General and the administration he represents. More in line with government rhetoric and, more importantly, action, has been the General's campaign against ballot initiatives in Arizona and California which legalized the medical prescription of marijuana. Consider these hostile remarks delivered by McCaffrey on Court TV after the passage of both measures...
...respond?" Dole hadn't put much money behind the ad, but the consultants decided to hit back hard. They came up with a spot highlighting Clinton's drug and crime policies, including the death penalty for drug kingpins, and hitting Dole for voting against creation of the drug czar's office...
DRUGS Elevated drug czar to Cabinet level, filling the post with a retired four-star general. Has proposed a $15-billion 1997 budget for fighting drug use, an increase of 9.3%. Promises to spend more on antidrug education and treatment programs...
...grow or use marijuana for legitimate medical reasons. But both times those were vetoed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, who has also come out strongly against the ballot measure. Other opponents include law-enforcement agencies, drug-abuse programs, California's Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein and White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey. "This proposition is not about medicine," charges Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates, co-chairman of Citizens for a Drug-Free California, the campaign opposing Prop 215. "It's about the legalization of marijuana...
...joke about drugs." Don't forget to quote Democrats like Representative Charles Rangel, who has said, "I've been in Congress for over two decades and I've never seen a President who cares less about this issue." Clinton will slam your early opposition to the drug czar's office. Rebut by quoting Clinton's own drug czar, General McCaffrey, who has said drug use is up because "we've taken our eye off the ball...