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Drug Czar: A person who controls a drug empire. The Czar's empire will deal in many criminal operations. Heroin, cocain, and marijana are the top three drugs that are used to power their business. The Director of the National Drug Control Policy (ubiquitously nicknamed the Drug czar) is the head of the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy. ... Keith Hellawell is a former British police officer, who was the New Labour governments drugs advisor and so called drugs czar from 1998. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...
Of course, responding to the zany politics of drug control, the president, in the past, fired a surgeon general who dared to suggest that drug abuse was more of a medical than a criminal problem Now, by appointing a man of McCaffrey's stature, Clinton finessed Republican efforts to nail him as being soft on drugs.
In their view, drug use was sinful and people had to be saved from their baser instincts.
They recommended that a national commission be appointed to study the harm that the drug war causes and to consider alternative approaches to discouraging drug use.
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