Pubdate: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 Date: 07/03/1999 Source: Washington Post (DC) Author: Tony Goins Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n680.a05.html Note: Czar McCaffrey's OPED was the target of the DrugSense FOCUS Alert at: http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0113.html To paraphrase Barry McCaffrey, "We are not involved in a drug war, and if we are, we are winning!" I'm sure this is a comfort to American parents, whose children have purer and cheaper drugs available to them than at any time in the history of this country. The general would like to portray anyone who disagrees with his interdiction-incarceration approach to the nation's drug problem as an evil legalizer who wants to put crack vending machines in preschools. The time for demagoguery on this issue has passed. We need a demand-side, treatment-oriented solution to America's drug problem. Tony Goins