Dem: Ex-DEA Chiefs “Arrogant” To Press For Pot Law Nullification
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Tuesday blasted eight former heads of the Drug Enforcement Agency for pressuring the Obama administration to crack down on laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Oregon and Washington.
“The federal government should concentrate on shutting down meth labs — not the laboratories of Democracy,” Cohen said in a statement. “The people of Colorado and Washington voted to implement these laws, and the federal government should respect their will.”
“It is arrogant of these former DEA chiefs to encourage the president to nullify these laws,” he continued. “The fact that these former DEA chiefs are so focused on marijuana possession is why we have lost the war on drugs. The war should be on heroin, meth, crack, cocaine and unauthorized use of prescription drugs — not marijuana possession.”
Eight former heads of the DEA — under Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford — wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) earlier this week encouraging them to press Attorney General Eric Holder to “vigorously enforce” the Controlled Substances Act, which lists marijuana as a Schedule I drug.
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