NEWS
By Paul Shread and JoAnna Daemmrich and Paul Shread and JoAnna Daemmrich,Staff writers | June 4, 1991
Anne Arundel drug czar Huntley J. Cross is leaving the limelight to go back to school.Nineteen months after taking over the Office of Drug and Alcohol Programs, Cross is ending his television spots to return to a post hepreviously held with the county school system. He will become assistant for pupil services as of July 1, said Louise Hayman, spokeswoman for County Executive Robert R. Neall.A veteran school administrator, Cross was praised widely as the driving force behind the school system's substance abuse program before former County Executive O. James Lighthizer appointed him drug czar in October 1988.
NEWS
By Dennis O'Brien and Dennis O'Brien,Staff writer | March 17, 1992
An administrator for federal drug abuse prevention programs has beenappointed to the $50,000-a-year post as county drug czar.The appointment, made by County Executive Robert R. Neall, was announced yesterday.Charlestine Fairley, program officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, will assume the post as director of the county drug and alcohol abuse prevention program April 1.The job means overseeing a $423,000 annualbudget and 10 staff members in an office set up to curb drug and alcohol abuse through youth tutorial and mentor programs, seminars in parenting skills and doling out grants.
NEWS
By Candy Thomson | June 9, 1991
Huntley Cross, the county's drug czar, is moving on.I don't knowif Cross is moving back to his old job in the school system because he wants to or because the Neall administration put him on rollers and tilted the floor toward the door.I've put in a call to Frank Robinson, leading expert on the transition phase of employment, but Frank hasn't gotten back to me yet.My gut feeling is that all is not well in czarland, and Cross was infected by the same disease that took the professional life of his Annapolis counterpart, Eric Avery.
NEWS
By Liz Atwood and Liz Atwood,Sun Staff Writer | September 19, 1994
People are telling Darius Stanton that they don't understand why he did it.Why would Annapolis' drug czar, believed to be the youngest drug policy official on the East Coast, suddenly relinquish his job in City Hall and set up shop in a tattered community center in one of the most troubled neighborhoods in Annapolis?He smiles broadly. "I felt it was time for growth and change," he said.Mr. Stanton, now 24, was only 18 when Anne Arundel County Executive Robert R. Neall hired him to work for his drug and alcohol prevention office.
NEWS
By Kerry diGrazia and Kerry diGrazia,Contributing Writer | August 12, 1995
If you look anywhere this summer, you'll see the man. There he is denouncing the New York Yankees for having "struck out" by signing Darryl Strawberry, who had been suspended for drug use. Then he's taking on "look-alike" products -- gum, candy and soda -- that resemble tobacco or alcohol products. There he is praising Colombia for arresting "the world's most wanted criminal."He is Lee P. Brown, 57, the White House director of drug control policy, also known as the "drug czar." And after two low-key years in office, he is mounting an attention-grabbing campaign.
NEWS
By Clarence Page | May 24, 2002
WASHINGTON - Our nation's drug czar is annoyed. If proponents have their way, the District of Columbia will vote later this year to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes for the second time. John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, took some pot shots at the issue in a recent Washington Post piece that has been reprinted across the country. Unfortunately, he brings more smoke than light. "After years of giggling at quaintly outdated marijuana scare stories like the 1936 movie Reefer Madness," he writes, "we've become almost conditioned to think that any warning about the true dangers of marijuana are overblown."