Posted on 01/20/2014 3:45:55 AM PST by Wolfie
DEA operations chief decries legalization of marijuana at state level
The chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday called the legalization of marijuana at the state level “reckless and irresponsible,” warning that the movement to decriminalize the sale of pot in the United States will have severe consequences.
Capra’s comments marked the DEA’s most public and pointed criticism of the movement toward decriminalization in several states, where local officials see it as an opportunity to generate tax revenue and boost tourism.
“It scares us,” James L. Capra said, responding to a question from a senator during a hearing focused on drug cultivation in Afghanistan. “Every part of the world where this has been tried, it has failed time and time again.”
Capra’s comments marked the DEA’s most public and pointed criticism of the movement toward decriminalization in several states, where local officials see it as an opportunity to generate tax revenue and boost tourism.
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I’ve known alcoholics and I have know pot heads. Both types are pathetic. But there is something really insidiously bad about how pot destroys motivation, especially in young people. Alcohol while bad in other ways punishes the abuser, at least at first, with a hangover. I guess this is pathetic logic but that is how i see it.
Have you ever heard of the Tenth Amendment?
Hopefully the nation’s potheads will all relocate to CO & WA.
Yes, the SCOTUS should find it(most federal laws) unconstitutional. But the SCOTUS is a joke. It is the lamest branch of government by far thru out US history.
So why did you say the war on drugs is a 'good thing'?
The concept of strong anti drug law enforcement is a good thing. Whether it is the Federal or State enforcing is a different matter.
Let them inhale for all I care, at least hippies on weed are calm and stupid not all hyped up like on crack or meth. However, hospitals, airlines, judiciary etc will need to require no substances including pot or things could get weird.
The best part is these overbearing LEOs can stop picking on kids about the wacky weed, wasting billions of dollars and tagging young people before they get started.
I am surprised at all the anti-marijuana sentiment here at FR. Live and live. Like almost anything, marijuana is fine in moderation. Does it undermine motivation in young people? Its possible.
Or perhaps unmotivated misfits are drawn to the weed smoking crowd in search of fellowship. Who knows? In any case, we dont want swat teams smashing into houses, people buying weed in slums, getting pulled into the criminal justice system.
Even me, your old Pappy, has been known to sit out back in a nice sunny spot with my dogs, listen to some good old-time hillbilly music, and smoke a little weed. It aint no ones business.
The war on drugs is a good thing. It shows there is shred of morality left in the USA and that some things are wrong.
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Exactly, why should a state be able to enact its own laws when the US Constitution is mute on the topic?
They should be allowed to.
Like abortion?
Do your kids get high?
In my youth, I have taken EVERY drug available with the exception of the ones involving needles, I have smoked,snorted,drank and eaten all the others. With the exception of LSD, all the drugs I have taken, GOD MADE. Mushrooms,Opium,Peyote,Weed.....By Far the most DANGEROUS DRUG I ever took was and is ALCOHOL, there simply is no comparison as to the destruction caused. Alcohol is the only drug that should be illegal, This is from Personal Experience, and if you ask anyone that has experimented with drugs, they will ALL SAY THE SAME THING. Everybody I know that is honest swears that Alcohol is the most Dangerous Drug ever unleashed on the people, and so do I.
If GOD Made it, what right does Man have declaring it Illegal??
The thing I find interesting about this debate is that conservatives take a position on guns that making them illegal will not reduce gun violence or reduce the number of criminals with guns. On the other hand, the same folks will argue that keeping pot illegal will somehow keep it out of kids hands or somehow be effective. The only real difference I see between legal and illegal in both cases is whether the distribution mechanism is above board or criminal black market.
Marijuana is a plant. Should Valerian plants be illegal since you can make Valium with them? Ginseng?
Your comparing an intoxicant to a hunk of metal and finding no difference?
Since God made it, why shouldn’t it be consumed in its God-given strength without additives or cultivation techniques to increase its effects?
When pot becomes universally legal do you mind if I sell some to your kids for side money?
And a convenient excuse to build that DNA database in Utah. You don’t think they’ll pass up the opportunity to save your DNA profile when they draw blood or do a cheek swab do you?
nobody gets impaired by pot for driving—it’s the alchies that get impaired
Back in the day before cops all had breathalyzers they used to give field sobriety tests. Different people become impaired at different levels anyway, so why not test directly to see if they are impaired or not?
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