This Is What A Drug War Looks Like When It's Dying...

This Is What A Drug War Looks Like When It's Dying

(from TokeofTheTown)

(my note- Michele Leonhart is a Bush-era holdover who was approved by President Obama to run the DEA...remember that, Google it if you want)
(also, note Sen Polis from CO grilling Leonhart with tough questions. Where are the rest of the dickless senators? Hiding or in denial, of course)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFC2I...yer_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...=ykwaXsQY6Eg#!






Drug Enforcement Administration Director Michele Leonhart's recent testimony during an oversight hearing before Congress is very notable for a couple of reasons.


The first and most obvious is Leonhart's deep cluelessness -- whether real or (very convincingly) feigned -- about the effects of marijuana, the effects of federal drug policy and, particularly, the impact of federal marijuana policy on people's lives.


Leonhard flat-out refused to admit that marijuana is any different than heroin, meth, or cocaine, and simply avoided directly addressing the hard questions put to her by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)


The second, and ultimately more important reason her testimony is notable, is that this is what the Drug War looks like when it's dying.


The cruel absurdities of U.S. federal drug policy are out in the open for everyone to see; that genie can't be put back into the bottle. The days of marijuana being treated as if it's a dangerous substance like hard drugs are numbered.


The cat's out of the bag.

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DEA Director Michele Leonhart claims marijuana is just as dangerous as meth, heroin and cocaine

Originally Posted by Corso312

I wish you were right , but I am not so sure about the war ending...A lot of marijuana laws are going backwards in some places...even being broke does not seem to stop or slow down these dumb greedy fucks that call the shots.

Two steps forward, one step back. Michigan's been backsliding, Florida has imposed harsher penalties for growing, Oklahoma just raised their penalties for everything mj-related, Montana largely repealed mmj...

Let's hope 2012 is a big swing in the other direction. With legalization on multiple ballots, it very well could be.