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 have read that the legal states include a 6-plant allowance for growing one’s own without tax or penalty.
It’s like home brewing or wine-making.
I didn't ask about beer I asked about pot but if you don't want to answer the question so be it.
Maybe this is worth its own thread:
“Ex-DEA agent jumps jobs to join marijuana investment firm”
By Jonathan Kaminsky
SEATTLE (Reuters) - In a decade with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Patrick Moen rose to supervise a team of agents busting methamphetamine and heroin rings in Oregon - before giving it all up to join the nascent legal marijuana industry in nearby Washington state.
In November, the former federal drug agent quit his post to work for a marijuana industry investment firm, and says he relishes getting in on the ground floor of a burgeoning industry he was once sworn to annihilate.”
http://news.yahoo.com/u-ex-dea-agent-unlikely-role-pot-investment-120446978—finance.html
Why would you sell anything of small dollar value to your grandchildren? Do you sell them Christmas presents? Sell them breakfast cereal? Do you create invoices of billable hours, when you visit them?
I can smell the weed on this thread, nauseating.
Libertarian- A Republican that wants to smoke legal pot.
They can get reassigned to the new unit that tracks down and arrests "homophobes".
Smoking Mom's bong.
Consequences such as disbanding the DEA?
Unfortunately, I have no grandchildren. If I did, they would be old enough to find pot in the schoolyard, workplace or from a friend. Am I freaked by the thought of children smoking or eating pot? Not really. I am aware that they already have access to it, see their parents smoke it and can watch it being sold and smoked in movies and on TV.
I don’t like the thought of toddlers and young children smoking, since they are not psychologically or physiologically mature.
Pot hasn’t been something sordid and underground since sometime in the 1950s. It is mainstream. It is only those of us without young connections who cannot find it easily.
That horse left the barn about 40 years ago. It now runs free with Federal and some State approval. The only Federal complaint, IMO, is that they want to control all revenue sources and keep the DEA budget while not allowing the States their 10th Amendment rights. They also like the control of having the ability to levy criminal charges on people when it suits their agenda and pot is an easy way to do that.
Reputable studies and personal observation pretty much discredit all the scare stories about it. It is a new source of revenue for government. It’s here, now, and ubiquitous. It is hypocritical to rant on pot availability when all the tranks and speed-like drugs are practically forced on anyone with any anxiety, stress or performance issues, including 5-year-olds, with the sanction of the State.
There are a lot of things in society that are not all right with me. However, I have zero power to do any more than try and live out what is left of my own life as removed from that society as possible. Even a hermit can observe, however.
Your attempt to guilt trip those who aren’t hyperventilating over legal pot is fairly lame.
I agree wholeheartedly,you are talking about “Distilled Spirits” like Whiskey,Gin,Vodka,Tequila,Rum... right??
You're operating on a faulty assumption here: that the illegalization is itself legitimate.
To enact similar regulation on alcohol the Constitution was amended, yet no such amendment exists WRT drugs.
Moreover, the power used to claim the authority to regulate drugs is the interstate commerce clause; which is the exact same clause regarding foreign trade.
To legitimize the War on Drugs the courts have transmuted the interstate commerce clause into an intrastate power, indeed to the point where non-commerce is regulated [under the commerce clause]. (See Raich)
Interestingly, if the federal government tried to regulate foreign countries as it does the states, such would be considered an act of war... and the enforcement of such policies would be (a) the waging of that war, or (b) the victor's subjugation of the defeated. — The Constitution defines the waging of war upon the several states as treason.
Perhaps it was a bit early to put “reformed” in your moniker. Just sayin’.
That is lamer than the guilt-tripping.
Just saying.
Is a reformed conservative someone who doesn’t think the Ninth and Tenth Amendments should be respected? Where in the Constitution is the DEA authorized to exist?
Agree, It is a states rights issue. However I do think the smuggling of contra band across borders is a FEDERAL matter.
I’ve always found that Freepers that put was a liberal ex liberal etc. in their monikers somewhat puzzling. Are you proud you were a brain dead liberal and want everyone to know that you were really stupid individual at one time in your life?
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