Drug Policy czar Barry McCaffrey believes the measures are premature since clinical research to determine the safety of marijuana use by AIDS patients has not yet been established. He also believes supporters of the initiatives have something else in mind. Prejudging that research through a political process would be irresponsible, ... This isn't medicine this is drug legalization.
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A giant problem for America. A small number of us, a little more than 1 of the American population addicted to illegal drugs, but taking a 35 billion dollar bite out of the health care system. Responsible for a third of all the AIDS in America and so on. It's just a tremendous nightmare. That problem needs to be addressed.Barry McCaffrey
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
Researchers did not propose any restrictions or censorship, saying, We do not suggest that we want to dictate the message. ... We are suggesting they need to be tied to the consequences that are realistic, given our experiences in American life.
Barry McCaffrey
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
Barry McCaffrey
The sun is setting on American dreams in Iraq what remains now to be worked out are the modalities of withdrawal, which depend on the powers of forbearance in the American body politic. But the dynamic has already been set in place. The United States is running out of troops. By the spring of 2006, nearly every active-duty combat unit is likely to have been deployed twice. The National Guard and Reserves, meanwhile, make up an unprecedented 40 percent of the force, and the Guard is in the stage of meltdown, ... the wheels are coming off.
Barry McCaffrey
The 1998 study shows that we have turned the tide of youth drug use.
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