POTUS or Congress Must Stop The DEA To End The War On Marijuana And Anyone That Uses It
by: Thinking Clearly
“The Drug Enforcement Administration was created by President Richard Nixon through an Executive Order*
in July 1973 in order to establish a single unified command to combat
“an all-out global war on the drug menace.” At its outset, DEA had 1,470
Special Agents and a budget of less than $75 million. Today, the DEA
has nearly 5,000 Special Agents and a budget of $2.02 billion.” http://www.justice.gov/dea/about/history.shtml
The DEA's purpose
is to keep marijuana illegal. No government agency is going to voluntarily put themselves out of business. To think that the DEA actually cares about the
facts is a fairy tale.
On
March 21, the day before the Shafer Commission released its report,
Nixon said, "We need, and I use the word 'all out war,' on all fronts
... we have to attack on all fronts." Nixon and his advisors went on to
plan a speech about why he opposed marijuana legalization, and proposed
that he do "a drug thing every week" during the 1972 presidential
election year. Nixon wanted a "Goddamn strong statement about marijuana
... that
just tears the ass out of them."
Nixon's
private comments about marijuana showed he was the epitome of
misinformation and prejudice. He believed marijuana led to hard drugs,
despite the evidence to the contrary. He saw marijuana as tied to
"radical demonstrators." He believed that "the Jews," especially "Jewish
psychiatrists" were behind advocacy for legalization, asking advisor
Bob Haldeman, "What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?" He
made a bizarre distinction between marijuana and alcohol, saying people
use marijuana "to get high" while "a person drinks to have fun."
In
1969, President Richard Nixon announced that the Attorney General, John
N. Mitchell, was preparing a comprehensive new measure to more
effectively meet the narcotic and dangerous drug problems at the federal
level by combining all existing federal laws into a single new statute.
The CSA combined existing federal drug laws but it also changed the
nature of federal drug law policies, expanded the scope of federal drug
laws and expanded Federal law enforcement as pertaining to controlled
substances.
The Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1, 1973 and
signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28.
Until
the President Of The United States or US Congress stops them, the DEA will always do what it was meant to
do: "tear the ass" out of marijuana users and prosecute an unreasonable
and unrelenting war on drugs - especially marijuana.
The
drug war and the mass incarceration of America will never end until the
US Congress or the President addresses the DEA and stops them from
prosecuting the still continuing War On Drugs and the people that use
them.
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