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ONDCP
1999
Drug
Strategy
to
be
Released
This
Saturday:
Another
"ten
year
plan"
but
a
lot
more
of
the
same
2/13/98
On Saturday, 2/14 President Clinton will announce the release of his
1999 Drug Strategy during his weekly radio address. The plan will include
a budget of $17.1 billion. The Week Online has net seen the plan in its
entirety, but some details are available. The plan envisions a 50% reduction
in both the availability and the use of drugs in the US over the next 10
years. In a new twist, the 1999 plan calls for agencies involved in anti-drug
efforts to develop and be held to productivity goals, such as number of
seizures and arrests. These goals will be re-evaluated annually, but Drug
Czar Barry McCaffrey told the Washington Post that there would be no mechanism
for punishing agencies which fail to reach their stated goals, but instead
he was counting on the news media and congressional oversight. There is
no indication that goals relating to the protection of individual rights
will be included in the plan.
Rob Stewart, a spokesman for the Drug Policy Foundation, told The Week
Online, "Yet another ten year plan. What's new about this? Ten year
plans have the advantage of insuring that no one who is in power now will
be around to answer for the inevitable failure. It's totally meaningless.
It's a way of trying to make believe that there has been a fresh start,
and that no one ought to question the strategy for the next several years
because it's somehow new and improved. The federal government is still
suffering from the illusion that national drug use trends can be controlled
from Washington."
The Drug Strategy will be posted by sometime this weekend at http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov.
You can visit the Drug Policy Foundation's web site at http://www.dpf.org.
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Issue #29, 2/13/98
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