DEA Official Freaks Out At Senate Hearing: Reckless Marijuana Legalization ‘Scares Us’

[Purveyor]

The chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration railed against the legalization of marijuana on Wednesday, warning the “experiment” was highly dangerous.

“I have to say this… going down the path to legalization in this country is reckless and irresponsible,” James L. Capra said during a Senate hearing. “I’m talking about the long-term impact of legalization in the United States. It scares us.”

Resident in Colorado and Washington state voted in 2012 to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. The U.S. Department of Justice later said it would not target individuals and marijuana dispensaries that were in compliance with state laws.

Capra claimed marijuana legalization had failed in every place it had been tried.

“There are more dispensaries in Denver than there are Starbucks,” Capra remarked. “The idea somehow… that this is somehow good for us as a nation, that this is good for the next generation coming up is wrong. It’s a bad thing, and this body will get its door knocked on ten years from now and say, ‘How did we get where we got?’”

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[arcane1]

1. "Won't somebody think of our FUNDING???"

[The Magistrate]

9. Hear Hear, Sir!

The man is petrified his cash cow will be let out to pasture....

[madokie]

2. Stupid can't be fixed

[G_j]

3. poor guy

[indie9197]

4. Now he can concentrate on meth, cocaine, and heroin

I don't think he needs to worry about losing his job.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Parasite.

[Ikonoklast]

6. DEA needs to be downsized; they are ineffective at everything they do.

There are more hard drug on the streets of this nation since the agency was founded.

The DEA has no interest in stopping hard drugs entering this country, in fact, they need them to keep coming in order to justify their existence.


And going after marijuana users and growers is a massive waste of time, money, and manpower.

[MADem]

7. Fire that idiot. And his grandma, too...

[Mosby]

8. dianne feinstein agreed with him? wth?

[TheKentuckian]

10. She is so sucky on most issues she may as well be a Reagan era puke or worse.

If you aren't hot and heavy on gun control she has little to offer. I think she wins because Republicans vote for her but I'm not from California. If you are her and heavy on gun control, she offers little else and probably does your cause more harm than good.

Hell, she is probably worse than your average puke on civil liberties and even money on military issues, plausible worse than some.

She is pretty much a more shitty but also a more powerful version of Ike Skelton.