WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michele Leonhart, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), repeatedly criticized the Obama administration at a hearing Wednesday on the DEA’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
In a memo released in July 2013, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it would not interfere with the effective implementation of laws regulating the cultivation and sale of marijuana for adults in Colorado and Washington. When asked by Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) during a Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing whether the Obama administration’s tolerant views toward legal marijuana had affected morale at the DEA, which is a branch of the DOJ, Leonhart replied that “our agents are fighting back against those messages. It makes us fight harder.” She had earlier criticized the DOJ for a perceived delay in issuing a response to Washington and Colorado’s new laws, claiming there was “a lot of confusion in those 296 days.”
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Yeah, their biggy is your dog will eat it and get sick. I think they need to quit smoking it.
ReplyDeleteWorried about their jobs? Not an unbiased opinion.
ReplyDeletethink the dollars we would save if we de-funded the DEA..the war is lost locking up addicts did nothing...
ReplyDeleteThe D.E.A. has become merely a puppet of the pharmaceutical industry. Using their office to play politics while the other departments continue ahead completely out of control. Placing their own law enforcement in public office has given this organization far far too much levity. We are all suffering the consequence of this over the top group of authoritarian sociopaths.
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