Drug czar is an informal name for the person who directs drug-control policies in various areas. The term follows the informal use of the term czar in U.S. politics. The 'drug czar' title first appeared in a 1982 news story by United Press International that reported that, "[United States] Senators ... voted 62–34 to establish a 'drug czar' who would have overall responsibility for U.S. drug policy."<ref>{{cite web|author1=Anthony H. Gamboa|title=Letter to Hon. John W. Olver & Hon. Henry A. Waxman, subject: Office of National Drug Control Policy|url=http://www.csdp.org/research/303495.pdf|website=csdp.org|publisher=U.S. Government Accountability Office|accessdate=4 August 2014|pages=14–15|date=4 January 2005|quote=We conclude that ONDCP’s prepackaged news stories violate the ban on covert propaganda, but its use of the term "drug czar" to refer to ONDCP’s Director does not violate the ban on self-aggrandizement.}}</ref> Since then, several ad hoc executive positions established in both the United States and United Kingdom have subsequently been referred to in this manner. Germany The Drug Commissioner of the German Federal Government has been called the nation's drug czar by the state media company Deutsche Welle. United States The first US Drug czar was Harry J. Anslinger who served as the first Commissioner of the Treasury Board-created Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962, under the administrations of five presidents: Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Legislative efforts for marijuana prohibition under Anslinger included a push for all states to adopt similar drug laws, the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which in effect criminalized the drug and set the stage for marijuana prohibition. Nixon and Ford administrations Jerome Jaffe, head of the Special Office for Drug Abuse Prevention Myles Ambrose, head of the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE) Robert DuPont, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and head of the Narcotics Treatment Administration Carter administration Peter Bourne, Director of the National Drug Control Policy followed by Lee I Dogoloff Mathea Falco, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Reagan administration Carlton Turner PhD, ScD, Director of the Drug Abuse Policy Office. Turner, while working as drug czar, was in communication with Elisaldo Carlini, a scientist in Brazil whose lab was studying the beneficial effects of CBD. Turner helped establish the Marijuana Research Project at the University of Mississippi. D. Ian McDonald, MD. Deputy Assistant to the President, Drug Abuse Policy Office Vice President George H.W. Bush, who created and oversaw the