DEA head can't pull head out

[xmobotx]

ARTICLE released today on newsweek <~linky

makes you just scratch your head wondering how someone can have such a backwards, diametrically wrong opinion & the gall to release it officially.

the "best" part;

But if you talk about smoking the leaf of marijuana—which is what people are talking about when they talk about medicinal marijuana

and, today in a time where public awareness is becoming so clear. it seems reasonable to consider all the years we've been marginalized for endorsing the plant & finally we're vindicated & the marginalization of the prohibitionists is finally rolling out

 

[St. Phatty]

Permission to smoke the Dried Roots <-- is this what I should be asking Uncle Sam for ? /sarc


Also, they can't bring themselves to mention what is implied by the collections of antique apothecary bottles labelled "Cannabis" ... for the first 160+ years of the US history, in the "pre-Pfizer" days, the three most widely used feedstocks used by pharmacists and doctors when preparing medications for Americans ==> Opiates, Cocaine derivatives, and Cannabis.

If it's such a bad plant - how did the US survive 160+ years of it being legal and widely prescribed ?

The DEA guy forgot that too.

 

[angelgoob]

He wants to not give off sm0ke. Vaporize.

He wants it pure.. Landrace.

 

[stoned-trout]

fuck em..yeehaw

 

[BlackBuds]

Fork toothed DEAmon lies. Fuck the devil.

 

[armedoldhippy]

it is impossible to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon their not understanding it...

 

[yesum]

Is it possible he was a heavy pot smoker as a teen? How to account for his low iq....

'All of us DEA guys were stoners in our youth, you can clearly see the brain damage inflicted on us. Our job is to protect society from what happened to us'.--Chuck Rosenberg

 

[xmobotx]

the thing is, for these guys, the more mis-information the better. I was disappointed i didn't find comments after this article?

that would have been the best part!

 

[angelgoob]

OMG yesum he is implying he smoked copius amounts of cannabis!

 

[Avinash.miles]

yhea, smoking leaf, that's what im talking about....
jesus, what an asshat
but i have to say that this is the talking point for cops / hard line prohibitionists. "there is no such thing as medical use". that's basically what this article says. damn the press for giving it credence and a voice to the ignorant.
proves how ignorant the anti crowd is... DEA chief thinks we are all smoking "LEAF"

 

[OranguTrump]

it is impossible to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon their not understanding it...

This is the key

Paid to NOT understand, publicly - once they leave job, they are free to tell the truth & call for the decrim/legalizing of cannabis.

 

[xmobotx]

here's the huff-post's rebuttal

huff-post's article

not that this community doesn't already know all this

 

[resinryder]

Obama did nominate him for the job. Thought he was more "friendly" regarding medical marijuana, lol