Let's Just Get Rid Of The DEA Already

[n2doc]

During an April 3 Senate subcommittee meeting on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s budget, Michele Leonhart, the head of the DEA, reaffirmed her commitment to stopping the movement for legal marijuana from going any further—and her commitment to using any excuse she can possibly find to justify her agency's existence.

Leonhart has previously trashed her boss Barack Obama for letting Colorado and Washington state proceed with selling pot for recreational purposes. She also took issue with Obama’s line about pot being no worse than alcohol (an accurate thing to say, though it rings hypocritical given the ongoing war on drugs his administration is fighting).

But at last week’s hearing, Leonhart upped her game and verbally wrung her hands about an odd victim of the war on drugs: dogs. Yes, as USA Today cautioned in March, dogs can get sick and even die if they consume marijuana edibles. Dogs can also die from eating chocolate or getting hit by cars or getting shot by police officers, yet we never hear any noise about banning those things. Leonhart’s won’t-someone-PLEASE-think-of-the-fluffy-puppies plea makes it seem as if she truly is running on empty, argument-wise.

But she’s not done, nor is the rest of the DEA. Leonart and her agents were not disheartened by the legalization of weed in Colorado and Washington state. “Actually, it makes us fight harder,” she said at the hearing, before fretting that parents would be teaching their teens that pot isn’t so bad.

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[bemildred]

1. When they say "think of the children" they mean "think of our jobs!"

But yeah, think of the dogs is a new low.

[IronGate]

2. This woman needs to go and the DEA disbanded.

The costly war on drugs has been an abject failure that's cost many lives, corrupted our Law Enforcement Agencies, torn apart families.

End the war on drugs now and spend the money elsewhere, like rebuilding our inner cities, the nations infrastructure, rebuild our crumbling education system.

Here's an idea, why not abolish the DEA, retrain the agents to go after the crooked banksters and Wall Street criminals?
At least let's get some bang for the tax payers bucks.

[sabrina 1]

6. I like your idea! Disband the DEA and retrain them to go after crooked banksters! Yes,

that is a great idea. We got nothing for all the billions spent on the Drug War, just more orphaned children, loss of Constitutional Rights, promotion of the Private Prison Industry, corruption, lies, cheating by local PDs and the outrageous prison sentences, mostly of minorities for petty possession charges.

I can't think of a single positive outcome of the so-called war on drugs.

If 'think of the dogs' is all they can come up with now, it's time to disband them and give the money to the many underfunded Animal Shelters who are far more experienced at taking care of dogs in need.

[pscot]

3. Defund DEA

Your congressman votes on the DEA budget.

[el_bryanto]

4. There are still problems with harder drugs

I do support national marijauna legalization, but other drugs, such as Heroin and Cocaine are causing problems - would they be handled by the FBI?

Bryant

[bemildred]

5. Yes, there are, but is criminal law the way to deal with them?

How does going to jail for a long time fix your drug problem? Anybody's drug problem?

It is well shown that harm reduction works better, and is much cheaper, and does not help to keep drug gangs in business.