Barry McCaffrey
Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffreyis a former United States Army officer, news commentator and business consultant. He received three Purple Heart medals for injuries sustained during his service in Vietnam, two Silver Stars for valor, and two Distinguished Service Crosses — the second-highest U.S. Army award for valor. He was inducted into U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame at U.S. Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning in 2007. He served as an adjunct professor at U.S. Military Academy and its Bradley Professor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.
It's a national issue now. It's not just a California or an Arizona issue. We know that these proponents of drug legalization are promoting it in other states, too.
(Drug smuggling) has gotten immeasurably worse in the last year, and we are determined to play hardball with international drug criminals.
Eradication is the central aspect of U.S. counter-narcotics thinking....That can't be taken off the table.
be killed suddenly, in significant numbers and without warning.
Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety.
everyone understands that a team effort is needed to confront the drug crisis.
As a result, the campaign takes a long-term view on working with filmmakers and understands that we may not see concrete results for several years.
Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,
I'm always concerned a bit about creative hypocrisy, because it's $49 billion of U.S. money on drugs that is acting as an engine drawing 60 percent of our own cocaine, marijuana, heroin coming through Mexico or adjoining Pacific or Caribbean waters.
As powerful as television is, some experts believe that movies have an even stronger impact on young people.
This money is aimed at helping those nations' economies, judicial systems, police and armed forces, in hopes of re-establishing the rule of law,
There's been a real reluctance to engage with a problem that affects a lot of American families and a lot of communities.
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.