Marijuana Advocates Thrilled At DEA Administrator's Expected Resignation

[Jacob Redmond]

Amid scandal over drug cartel-funded sex parties, Drug Enforcement Administration head Michele M. Leonhart is expected to resign, as of Tuesday. Marijuana advocates are thrilled at the news.

During her tenure, Leonhart struck back against the Obama administration for taking a lax position on marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado in 2012.*edit* In a hearing on Capitol Hill that same year, she refused to answer whether marijuana was less dangerous than other drugs like c*caine and h*roin.

"All illegal drugs are bad," she stated firmly.

"Leonhart's tenure at DEA was shameful," Tom Angell, chairman of the Marijuana Majority, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "From interfering with voter-approved state marijuana laws to mismanaging broader agency scandals, it's long been time for her to go. This vacancy is an opportunity for President Obama to nominate someone who recognizes and respects that the war on drugs - particularly when it comes to marijuana - is winding down. Hopefully he'll pick someone who is prepared to at least support rescheduling marijuana to a more scientifically appropriate category."

When Obama told The New Yorker that marijuana is safer than alcohol, Leonhart was quick to criticize his comments. She also stated that the worst day of her law enforcement career was when a flag made of hemp flew above the U.S. Capitol Building. What's more, Leonhart overruled an administrative law judge at the DEA, who argued that the National Institute on Drug Abuse should lose its monopoly on the marijuana supply for research, in order to benefit the public.

The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation's largest marijuana policy organization, also hopes that the Obama administration will tap a new head who is more interested in keeping step with Obama's drug priorities, which clearly favor medical marijuana and a hands-off approach to state legalization.

Last year, MPP called for Leonhart's resignation.*edit* The petition received 46,000 signatures.

"While most of the country has been progressing in its views on marijuana policy, Ms. Leonhart has maintained a mindset straight out of the 1930s. Hopefully her resignation will mark the end of the 'Reefer Madness' era at the DEA," Dan Riffle, director of federal policies for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

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[Antics]

"All illegal drugs are bad,"

And what about the legal drugs, Alcohol, and Nicotine? Smartass has nothing to say about those, does she?

Fuck her. Good riddance. She's obviously not even qualified to ask me "Do you want fries with that?" I hope she rots.

 

[J9BLACK]

I too greeted this news with a smile. However, I don't know what we gain here. The current AG nominee took a drug warrior approach to marijuana during congressional hearings and the next head of the DEA must as well.

I don't hope she rots. I hope she discovers what she and her alcoholic buddies have been missing and wrong about all their lives.

Imagine the abject shame in that epiphany. Unfortunately, she might have to get cancer to get to that point.

 

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And what about the legal drugs, Alcohol, and Nicotine? Smartass has nothing to say about those, does she?

Fuck her. Good riddance. She's obviously not even qualified to ask me "Do you want fries with that?" I hope she rots.

And FDA approved drugs, which in spite of the scientific, controlled, randomized, double blind studies result in 100,000 death each year in the U.S. and with many more users of those drugs suffering damage to their health from the adverse reactions cause by those drugs. https://https://healthimpactnews.com/2012/legal-drugs-vs-illegal-drugs-are-we-fighting-the-right-war/ Many of which have to be pulled from the market due to the harm done to those who have been prescribed them by licensed MDs. Listen to one of the many Big Pharma drug commercials that are constantly on TV. Beautifully filmed with happy images of beautiful people while the voice over is a long litany of adverse side effects of increasing severity, up to and including death. Compared to those drugs cannabis, which is a plant -- used safely and beneficially by countless millions of humans for millennia as a food and medicine -- is not any where near as harmful as FDA approved drugs.

The alleged potential harms of cannabis -- which have not been conclusively proven by decades of NIDA sponsored studies -- don't even approach those of most FDA approved drugs. Patients suffering from cancer, seizures, Crohn's disease, PTSD, etc. have dutifully gone through the prescribed FDA approved treatments only to have their disease progress and then also suffer the additional insult and injury to their health from adverse reactions to those drugs. Only after having gone through the gauntlet of those FDA sanctioned treatments do a fortunate few have the chance to use cannabis as a last resort.

The prohibition of cannabis will one day be widely seen as one of the greatest crimes against humanity in the modern era.