How shold we repurpose the DEA?

[NobleSavage]

If we are gonna stop this stupid war on drugs we need to find something to do for all the people getting a pay check from it.

DEA. How about having them hide out in restrooms across the country and bust people who don't wash their hands?

Prison Guard Union. Give them better paying jobs in grow ops.

Private Prisons: don't pay them based on bodies. Pay them according to the recidivism rate. Throw them some section 8 contracts to build in the communities they have spawned.

State and local cops: they have enough to worry about.

Who else am I forgetting?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

If we are gonna stop this stupid war on drugs we need to find something to do for all the people getting a pay check from it.

DEA. How about having them hide out in restrooms across the country and bust people who don't wash their hands?

Prison Guard Union. Give them better paying jobs in grow ops.

Private Prisons: don't pay them based on bodies. Pay them according to the recidivism rate. Throw them some section 8 contracts to build in the communities they have spawned.

State and local cops: they have enough to worry about.

Who else am I forgetting?

Well considering a good chunk of the DEA's job is watching prescription medication, I'd like to keep them around to track down the fakes and dangerous shit.

 

[untermensche]

These are the forces keeping the "drug war" in place.

When a person's paycheck depends on them seeing marijuana as some great danger magically they see it that way.

 

[NobleSavage]

If we are gonna stop this stupid war on drugs we need to find something to do for all the people getting a pay check from it.

DEA. How about having them hide out in restrooms across the country and bust people who don't wash their hands?

Prison Guard Union. Give them better paying jobs in grow ops.

Private Prisons: don't pay them based on bodies. Pay them according to the recidivism rate. Throw them some section 8 contracts to build in the communities they have spawned.

State and local cops: they have enough to worry about.

Who else am I forgetting?

Well considering a good chunk of the DEA's job is watching prescription medication, I'd like to keep them around to track down the fakes and dangerous shit.

That's legit.

 

[Keith&Co.]

If we are gonna stop this stupid war on drugs we need to find something to do for all the people getting a pay check from it.

DEA. How about having them hide out in restrooms across the country and bust people who don't wash their hands?

Just classify tobacco as a dangerous drug and let them keep on keeping on.
They can follow all the 'you can have my chew when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers' bumper stickers and have all the raids and gunfire exchanges they'll ever want.

you wouldn't even need to change the agency on their badges.

 

[Wiploc]

These are the forces keeping the "drug war" in place.

When a person's paycheck depends on them seeing marijuana as some great danger magically they see it that way.

Reminds me of a quote, which I'm going to paraphrase, given that I won't remember it accurately. Something like, "It can be very very difficult to understand something if you are paid a great deal of money not to understand it."

 

[ronburgundy]

If we are gonna stop this stupid war on drugs we need to find something to do for all the people getting a pay check from it.

DEA. How about having them hide out in restrooms across the country and bust people who don't wash their hands?

Prison Guard Union. Give them better paying jobs in grow ops.

Private Prisons: don't pay them based on bodies. Pay them according to the recidivism rate. Throw them some section 8 contracts to build in the communities they have spawned.

State and local cops: they have enough to worry about.

Who else am I forgetting?

Well considering a good chunk of the DEA's job is watching prescription medication, I'd like to keep them around to track down the fakes and dangerous shit.

They should spend more efforts investigating over-prescription by docs, the payoffs (kickbacks) docs get, and the corruption and fraud at the FDA.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Who else am I forgetting?

What about my friendly neighborhood dealer? Unless he gets first dibs on a state licensed storefront and or grow.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Target practice.

 

[untermensche]

These are the forces keeping the "drug war" in place.

When a person's paycheck depends on them seeing marijuana as some great danger magically they see it that way.

Reminds me of a quote, which I'm going to paraphrase, given that I won't remember it accurately. Something like, "It can be very very difficult to understand something if you are paid a great deal of money not to understand it."

Yeah, it's a common theme.

And one real problem is that so many people are making a living only because of the "drug war".

The OP is right.

Figuring out what to do with all these people is a part of ending this destructive prohibition.

 

[Metaphor]

Since the drug wars only harm people, literally paying them to do nothing would be a net improvement.

In other words, almost anything would be better. Public infrastructure. Librarians. Extra clerks at the DMV.

 

[Bomb#20]

They should spend more efforts investigating over-prescription by docs, the payoffs (kickbacks) docs get, and the corruption and fraud at the FDA.

They spend too much effort investigating over-prescription by doctors already, with the predictable result that lots of doctors are gun-shy, with the predictable result that lots of very sick patients have their pain chronically under-managed.

 

[NobleSavage]

Reminds me of a quote, which I'm going to paraphrase, given that I won't remember it accurately. Something like, "It can be very very difficult to understand something if you are paid a great deal of money not to understand it."

Yeah, it's a common theme.

And one real problem is that so many people are making a living only because of the "drug war".

The OP is right.

Figuring out what to do with all these people is a part of ending this destructive prohibition.

See we can agree on something.

 

[Medicine Man]

These are the forces keeping the "drug war" in place.

When a person's paycheck depends on them seeing marijuana as some great danger magically they see it that way.

Reminds me of a quote, which I'm going to paraphrase, given that I won't remember it accurately. Something like, "It can be very very difficult to understand something if you are paid a great deal of money not to understand it."

I'm thinkin' that excuse (for DEA agents) has been pretty-much vaporized, by....​

...LEAP!!!

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