His actions, the department said, might "ensure that foreign governments will be far less likely to cooperate voluntarily in future investigations and law-enforcement efforts."

The President's plan emphasizes law-enforcement efforts aimed at drug sellers and users.

In fact, some state officials are worried that the bill could actually jeopardize some law-enforcement efforts.

We kept it out of our law-enforcement efforts.

The report's authors also worried that greater Federal responsibility in the criminal area might confuse and discourage local law-enforcement efforts.

These are things that can be attacked by law-enforcement efforts.

But the investigation created a blueprint for future law-enforcement efforts, they said.

The department has also said that the circuit court's approach "threatens to impair law-enforcement efforts overseas."

The White House said it did not want to divert money to treatment programs from international and domestic law-enforcement efforts.

Prosecutors called the agreement an important first step toward tougher regulation of an industry that has sidestepped law-enforcement efforts since the 1950's.