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The DEA has no purpose other than to enforce drug laws. The public has consistently shown that it wants drug laws to be more liberal, but to the DEA, that's an
by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The DEA has no purpose other than to enforce drug laws. The public has consistently shown that it wants drug laws to be more liberal, but to the DEA, that's an existential threat. The DEA has a vested interest in the drug police state. It's a monster. What a mess.
- ende 12y agoIt should be thoroughly dismantled. It won't be though, because we have no control over our government.
- mtdewcmu 12y agoWe have control in principle, and, in practice, if the public was energized enough about this it would get done. It's just that the bar is set extremely high and it's almost unthinkable what abuses might need to occur to get that much attention to the drug issue. The reason we're in this situation to begin with is that drug users are poor advocates for their own cause and they are easy targets for discrimination and persecution. The biggest reason is that drug users are a small minority that's mostly invisible. If you eliminate marijuana it gets even smaller.