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John P. Walters
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John P. Walters is the current Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Walters has served as the "Drug Czar" since he was sworn in on December 7, 2001. Among Walters' priorities have been the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign and random student drug testing, which he refers to as the "silver bullet solution" to our nation's drug problems.
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- Nominated by President George W. Bush as Director of National Drug Control Policy
- Served as deputy drug director under President George H. Bush
- Served as the chief of staff to William J. Bennett
- Served as acting drug policy director briefly in 1993.
(Quit in protest of President Bill Clinton reduction of the office's staff)
- Worked for the Department of Education, where he headed the Schools Without Drugs prevention program
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- "I also came here to thank some of you who have, and urge some of you who haven't -- your colleagues -- to help us with two other things that I think are important. As you know, one of the great manifestations of cynicism about this problem is the enormous and extensively funded campaign to legalize drugs in the United States. No people are more affected by the confusion this causes than the young people you are trying to work with. We have adopted the aggressive posture of going into states where this has been proposed as ballot initiatives, and will be on the ballots in some states again this year. We have aggressively gone to state legislatures where these measures have appeared in the last year. I want to thank, sincerely, those of you who represent states and officials, some of yourselves, who have spoken up. You know that when you speak up, that this has become a very nasty debate. Of criticism, accusing people who have public responsibilities of meddling in partisan politics, of using money to try to present lies to young people, and to criticize those who stand up and tell the truth. I'm coming to ask you to stand up with us again. They WILL criticize you. They WILL try to stop you. They WILL try to shut you up. DO IT ANYWAY." --Recorded by Micah Daigle at the 2004 D.A.R.E. International Training Conference
- In July 2007, Walters called marijuana growers, "violent criminal terrorists."