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The false claim that getting tough on marijuana helps children
is easily disputed. While heroin arrests and court referrals for treatment dropped precipitously, heroin use by eighth graders spiked along with arrests and so-called treatment mandated to marijuana users in lieu of jail. Also, Barthwell, Rathbone and their cronies all carefully avoid mentioning that vaporizers and cooked marijuana completely eliminate tars and resins believed to cause health problems in smokers.
Of course, fanatical zealots have long made it their business to lie in an effort to collect often tax-free government, corporate and private money for or in support of marijuana drug testing. Take, for example DeForest Rathbone's associations, the National Institute of Citizen Anti-drug Policy and 'Drug Free Kids: America's Challenge.' Rathbone claimed in the June 1 letter, "Drug Czar Defended" that former drug czar Barry McCaffrey did not support drug testing while in office. Historical records, including many news clippings prove that claim is untrue.
"Darligton's reference to Clinton administration former drug czar Barry McCaffrey promoting drug testing while he was in office was false."
"The success of Wada is essential to the continued involvement of the world community in the Olympic movement," US drugs czar Barry McCaffrey told reporters after addressing the opening session.
Sydney testing
Wada is to establish a list of banned substances, coordinate unannounced out-of-competition drug testing, develop standards for collecting and analysing samples, set unified drug sanctions and promote research.
, by not testing for drugs, baseball now appears to have the same problem other leagues have. Officials of the league and its players union have allowed -- even encouraged -- steroid use to take hold in America's pastime, said Gen. Barry McCaffrey, head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Only the community, Mr McCaffrey suggested, had any hope of winning the war. The best he could offer was the idea that anyone arrested by the police should be required to submit to "rehabilitation" if they tested positive for drugs.
On October 19, Clinton announced that his administration will develop a plan to test the urine of driver's license applicants under the age of 18, and he gave drug czar Barry McCaffrey 90 days to present the plan to him.
" . . . so-called medical marijuana is really nothing more than a form of snake-oil medicine backed by a $500 billion international drug trafficking industry as a ruse to gain acceptance of marijuana, which serves as bait to lure children into addiction and the subsequent compulsive consumption of the drug traffickers' lucrative evil products. "
