Congrats on RES 610 - lets have a toke sometime
July 13th 2008 14:37
This week, the senate introduced Senate Resolution 610. It was just one hundreds of such resolutions passed every year to congratulate someone or commemorate someone or something. I find this one particularly interesting because it's title is "Honoring the men and women of the Drug Enforcement Administration on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Administration."
The resolution, introduced by Biden and Grassley, is a little piece of legislature that congratulates the DEA on all of its accomplishments like:
*"227 domestic offices, in 21 field divisions"
*having "seized over 5,500 kilograms of heroin, 650,000 kilograms of cocaine, 2,300,000 kilograms of marijuana, and 13,000 kilograms of methamphetamine and almost 80,000,000 dosage units of hallucinogens, and made over 240,000 arrests" since 2000
*being "the largest international presence of any Federal law enforcement agency"
*collaborating "since 2000 alone have led to the indictments of 63 leaders, members, and associates of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a designated foreign terrorist organization"
*continuing to "disrupt drug trafficking activities by denying drug trafficking organizations $3,500,000,000 in fiscal year 2007 alone, exceeding their 5-year goal of $3,000,000,000 annually by fiscal year 2009;
I think it is absolutely unbelievably hilarious! Politicians just LOVE to pat themselves on the back for doing nothing.
Sure, they may have stopped $3 billion in drugs, but they spent $20 billion in the federal government alone to do it! That doesn't even count the state and local money being spent to stop it.
And are drugs any less prevalent than they were since the organization was put into existence 35 years ago? Absolutely not! According to the OJP office, manufacturing arrests stayed stagnant while possession arrests tripled. Overall, there were more than 3x the amount of arrests in 2005 as there were in 1980. If it were working, the manufacturing arrests would have gone up and the usage arrests gone down.
If they stopped $3 billion in trafficking and arrested 1.9 million people for possession last year, that means that every arrest only accounted for about $157 in drugs. Now that's an accomplishment.
The "War on Drugs" has done nothing but increase the price of drugs and make the manufacturers and dealers richer and here we have the government congratulating themselves for it. Typical.
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*"227 domestic offices, in 21 field divisions"
*having "seized over 5,500 kilograms of heroin, 650,000 kilograms of cocaine, 2,300,000 kilograms of marijuana, and 13,000 kilograms of methamphetamine and almost 80,000,000 dosage units of hallucinogens, and made over 240,000 arrests" since 2000
*being "the largest international presence of any Federal law enforcement agency"
*collaborating "since 2000 alone have led to the indictments of 63 leaders, members, and associates of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a designated foreign terrorist organization"
*continuing to "disrupt drug trafficking activities by denying drug trafficking organizations $3,500,000,000 in fiscal year 2007 alone, exceeding their 5-year goal of $3,000,000,000 annually by fiscal year 2009;
I think it is absolutely unbelievably hilarious! Politicians just LOVE to pat themselves on the back for doing nothing.
Sure, they may have stopped $3 billion in drugs, but they spent $20 billion in the federal government alone to do it! That doesn't even count the state and local money being spent to stop it.
And are drugs any less prevalent than they were since the organization was put into existence 35 years ago? Absolutely not! According to the OJP office, manufacturing arrests stayed stagnant while possession arrests tripled. Overall, there were more than 3x the amount of arrests in 2005 as there were in 1980. If it were working, the manufacturing arrests would have gone up and the usage arrests gone down.
If they stopped $3 billion in trafficking and arrested 1.9 million people for possession last year, that means that every arrest only accounted for about $157 in drugs. Now that's an accomplishment.
The "War on Drugs" has done nothing but increase the price of drugs and make the manufacturers and dealers richer and here we have the government congratulating themselves for it. Typical.
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As to "one pot-head's opinion" ... I have seen MJ kill folks just as dead as alcohol, including some innocent bystanders. Keep fooling yourself, you will get there one day. And, the results of abusing alcohol are already criminalized in most states I believe.
Drug addiction, including MJ, is a matter of personal choice (until it is too late and I understand that children can be born addicted, which was a matter of a parents' choice) ... that is not the case with alcohol. Neither substance ever helped me deal with the realities of life ... only gave me a place to hide from them.
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I'm certainly not an advocate of doing drugs, (although most of us had our moments when we were kids for sure)...but I DO believe that the choice to do or not to do them should be available to everyone.
Those that are going to overdose are still going to whether or not it is legal.
I really believe that if we decriminalized drugs and did away with the whole war on them in general, prices would fall and it wouldn't be as attractive for dealers to sell it anymore.
It can't be worse than what they have going now!
Comment by Morgan Bell
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i love how you have done all the calculations showing up drug enforcement to be as stupid as it really is!
im sure people think drugs cause crime but i honestly believe it is the cost of drugs that cause crime
thanks for a great read!