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DEA Asks Congress for More Money

By Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 03:15:41 PM EST
Tags: War on Drugs (all tags)
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DEA Administrator Karen Tandy testified before the House Committee on Appropriations regarding DEA's FY2008 budget request, describing DEA's significant "successes" over the past year, and of course, asking for more money.

Her proposed $2.4 billion budget represents an increase of $110 million over the FY2007 President's budget.

You can read her testimony here.

I guess the $205 million seized this week was just a drop in the bucket. $2.4 billion for the war on drugs? I bet there's a ton of pork in that amount.

[hat tip to Paul Armentano of NORML.}

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    Drop (none / 0) (#1)
    by HeadScratcher on Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 03:38:56 PM EST
    While 2.4 billion is a drop in the bucket of a 3 trillion dollar budget, it's still a ton of money being used on something that free people should have a right to do to themselves.

    Here's a compromise: Let the Big Drug companies be the legal distributors of the product (to make conservatives happy), tax the s**t out of it to fund social programs (to keep liberals happy), and let a free person be free to screw up their lives (heroin, coke) or enjoy a little weed. Make selling to children a felony and we're all happy.

    She Didnt Mention the Real Problems (none / 0) (#2)
    by peacrevol on Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 03:42:31 PM EST
    She talked all about how cocaine use is down and meth use is down and ecstacy use is down, blah blah blah. The real problem these days is not the drugs the kids get off the streets, it's the ones they get out of their mommy's purse. Kids these days get all hopped up on perscription drugs. She didnt mention that. Is more money going to stop that too? How? My point is that no matter how much money they pour into their little war on drugs (war on the citizens) we're still going to have those that get their jollies off by getting wasted any way they can. Let's take that 2.4 billion dollars and the eleventy bajillion more dollars they'll spend over the next few years educating parents on how to talk to their kids about drugs and how to keep them from wanting to try drugs. And there will probably be some left over to educate kids about drug use, both benefits (however miniscule they may be) and negative consequences. Of course they'll have to teach the truth about drugs or the effect will be negative.

    But instead, congress will let her have as much money as she wants and she'll keep throwing our kids and young adults in jail. And we'll keep spending money on the other side to have trials for them and keep them in jail and so on and so forth. I wonder what the total annual cost is. That 2.4 billion to the DEA is only the tip of the iceburg of what we'll spend next year on the war on our own citizens.

    What the heck.... (none / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 04:53:34 PM EST
    Give 'em 30 billion....I still bet the drugs win this war.

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