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...JOYCELYN ELDERS...
That was then. Since taking office, Clinton's passion for the issue has flared only once -- last week, when he stomped on Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders for suggesting a study of the possibility of legalizing illicit drugs. Clinton's knee-jerk, anti-intellectual response, which can be fairly summarized as "No way, nohow; not now, not ever," is bad enough. Worse is his silent acceptance of policies that shortchange drug treatment, an abandonment of his pledge to invert the ratio of funds spent on drug interdiction vs. treatment, a split that continues to allocate $13.1 billion of federal antidrug money...
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders remarked that legalizing drugs would reduce violent crime and suggested that the consequences of drug legalization should be studied. The White House forcefully repudiated Elders comments, and G.O.P. lawmakers called for her resignation...
...weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this Christmas. "We know that toy guns were used to commit 30,000 robberies in the last five years," she said, "and many times our children feel that real guns are just like toys...
After a speech last week, Clinton's new Surgeon General, Joycelyn Elders, recommended a radical solution to the grave problem of violence in America. She explained that "we would markedly reduce our crime rate if drugs were legalized." Other countries which have legalized drugs have experienced "a reduction in their crime rate" with "no increase in their drug use rate," she added. Elders made it clear, though, that her solution, while well grounded, would require serious study. "I don't know all the ramifications of this," she admitted...