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It's possible the 'war on drugs' was an excuse used to establish those capabilities. I think it's telling that the DEA has been given the authority to take part
by rch 6y ago
It's possible the 'war on drugs' was an excuse used to establish those capabilities. I think it's telling that the DEA has been given the authority to take part in other enforcement actions on a temporary basis in response to the current protests. The agency could easily shift focus to e.g. human trafficking and continue unabated post-legalization.
- toyg 6y agoThere is only so much human trafficking one can do. I don’t see anything with the potential production volume of what is, essentially, a foodstuff (cheap to produce and consumed multiple times a day, every day). Scaling down would be inevitable at the first sign of economic crisis, in the same way the defense sector was hit significantly post-89.
- bdamm 6y agoThe point is that there's plenty of illegal behavior and only so many enforcement resources (which is by design right?) so we don't need to be worried for the officer's jobs, they can just switch to new legal focus area de jour.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoIt's awfully hard to retrain a cop to be a forensic accountant. The judicialbranch has been failing to undertake anything but token measures against white collar crimes. Actual police work against white collar criminals is not as easy as coercing a junkie into selling felonious amounts of a plant by product or made in a bath tub chemical.