Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Since 2007, the DEA has taken $3.2 billion in cash from people without charging them with a crime

By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post

"These seizures are legal under the controversial practice of civil asset forfeiture, which allows departments to keep seized cash and property for themselves unless individuals successfully challenge the forfeiture in court."

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“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy … and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with ‘scientific support’ … fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others.”

William F. Buckley, Jr.
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495

– John Ehrlichman,
White House counsel to President Nixon
on the rationale of the War on Drugs:
"Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue…that we couldn’t resist it.”

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post

"These seizures are legal under the controversial practice of civil asset forfeiture, which allows departments to keep seized cash and property for themselves unless individuals successfully challenge the forfeiture in court."

"These seizures are legal under the controversial practice of civil asset forfeiture, which allows departments to keep seized cash and property for themselves unless individuals successfully challenge the forfeiture in court."

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