Top DEA agent won’t admit heroin more harmful than marijuana

Both are addictive? WTF? Has she read a SINGLE scientific report on the substances she's paid to control? Like I've said 100 times....DEA is welfare for conservatives. Free jobs for folks who pretend to be holier than thou. And yet they can't accomplish their mission. Ever. WASTE of 2 billion per year. AND archaic drug laws prevent a huge sector of the economy from ever taking off. Also empowers cartels. But if they admit that, they lose their jobs.

She is "full of it"!! Pot is illegal primarily because of the fear of people like Hurst, who wanted it outlawed due to the competition in the paper industry. Hurst owned large forests for making paper, and hemp is better for paper than wood.

The Deputy Administrator of the DEA has about as much insight into drugs as Mr. Mackey. "Drugs are bad, mkay."

Polis is awesome. He just kept backing her into the corner trying to make her admit that she was clueless, or at the very least, wasn't concerned with facts. It's too bad the power structure IS the way it is... but it's representatives like him that make me think we might be able to overturn some of our more corrupt laws.

WHY IS RUSH NOT IN JAIL?????

Administrator Michele Leonhart was at the ...C-Span-3 on TV, the Capital Hill, Director Senator Sheldon...she was there I saw her on TV...this is what was shared.
. June 30, 2011, C-Span-3 on TV, the Capital Hill, Director Senator Sheldon, Senate Judiciary Sub Committee for Crime and Terrorism. Announcement Oxy. Heroin, this Heroin Health Care Concept, in 2007 that 27,000 Americans died, from this Opioid.

Also- between Canada and the USA, 1.2 million people died from Oxy Heroin between 9/11 to 2011.
So if this Oxy Heroin is so good for the economy, where is the money ?

She lied and I want the world to know.

Never mind that you can DIE from alcohol withdrawal, people do every year. Never mind that abuse of prescription drugs kills thousands a year, and it is incredibly difficult to prove anyone dies from using weed. Barry O has continued to prop up the decades of garbage that is the epic fail of the war on drugs. Mittens will do same should he get elected, big pharma owns his ass.

Too many gov't jobs on the line to legalize pot, and decriminalize drugs. Addicts are addicts not criminals until made to commit crimes to support addiction to drugs that are illegal. Between DEA, FBI, State police drug enforcement agencies, tens of thousands of jobs are on the line. Personnally I say legalize pot, decriminalize drugs and send all the idiots to the Mexican border to control it. Hard core drug addicts that refuse treatment will ultimately kill themselves, those who wish to seek treatment could get it, and everyone could enjoy a joint, blunt, volcano or bong without being arrested.

I will quit smoking it when it quits growing in nature. This is an Herb that grows wild in just about every part of the earth. The Bastards can't regalate it and tax it so it will never be free. That means we will never be free to do as we please. FREE THE HERBS ! FREE THE PEOPLE !!

DEA is cover group for CIA drug dealing. They are always makeing the money on illegal drugs. They keep them illegal to have serious cover over what they decide to do every day.

This is just another example of government run-amuck for corporations. I don't think a person could be that mis-informed without purpose. The war on cannabis has been a casualty of truth, from the beginning. The more things change,the more they stay the same. Sad, sad, sad.

!@#$% A, Oxy, which is a watered-down version of heroin and LEGAL with a doctor's prescription does a hell of a lot more damage to society than pot.

Leonhart must be in the pocket of Big Pharma if this is how she feels.

Consider this woman as an enemy of the People, one who should be shunned and refused any social or commercial accomadation of any sort.

WAR ON DRUGS = WAR ON AMERICANS!

I won't watch more bullshit just to confirm what we all already know is bullshit. Peeps, we don't have to continue living with this charade of a War On Drugs, when we all know it's merely another mechanism for transforming our nickels and dimes into the dollars of the 1%! Even we non pot smokers need to march up the Capitol steps in the hundreds of thousands, with joints between our lips, and demand that Congress get their filthy hands out of our pockets to support a bogus war on drugs, which is actually a War On The People, and LEGALIZE -not just decriminalize- drugs. It's time to tell them that we will not support the corporate welfare that the theft of the People's money, disguised as a "War On Drugs," truly is. When the government is warring on us in forms such as this, it's time to return the favor!

What a dim-witted DEA agent....might as well replace these agents with robots, because the kind of answers and interactions they appear to be capable of, are no different than interacting with a machine. She is programmed to recite a script, and does not appear to even be capable of processing the question Polis is asking her....complete refusal to comprehend the words "better" or "worse."

One interesting point she did make....the decision to make marijuana an illegal or legal substance does and has resided with Congress from Day 1 of the inane drug war. Long story short, it is the assholes we elect who are refusing to budge on this issue.

She's not smoking crack or an airhead. She's a liar, and in order to advocate for the continuing prohibition of marijuana you have to be willing to lie through your teeth.

Asking a D.E.A. official whether marijuana is dangerous is outright stupid. What are they going to say? "There is no dangerous effects connected to marijuana use, but it should be illegal to protect our budget."

Asking a law enforcement official whether marijuana should be legalized is like asking an athlete if sport should be criminalized. The conflict of interest is overwhelming. The instant this committee asked the D.E.A. for their opinion the whole procedure became nothing more than a horse and pony show. The D.E.A. has no business giving opinions on drug laws.

I hope this House Judiciary Committee asked scientists what the truth about marijuana is.

this is a recording...."All illegal drugs are addictive...." Can we turn this into a drinking game. She sounds and looks like a parrot, she obviously has NO self respect. When people look at her, all I see is the company logos like a Nascar automobile. Why can't we arrest her for arresting people for no reason and not knowing why. I was just following orders is a BS claim.

Well, first ...

NO ONE HAS EVER DIED OF A MARIJUANA OVERDOSE!!!!

well she is only the chief of the DEA.....why would she need to know that? oh I have an idea....lets ratchet up the war on Drugs and put another 10 million in jail.

Law enforcement gets $$ for items, real estate confiscated if they can make the slightest case items were bought with drug money. Of course they want to hype the 'dangers' of pot to keep people from getting on the legalization bandwagon. $$$ makes the wheels go round.

Also posted at msjnews.net

http://nonlinearresonance.com/currents/index.php?topic=1336.msg7295#msg7295

What's she smoking? or rather who?
Smoke em if you got em.
KB, tote one for me will ya!

Many comments have been made about the money to be saved, or made, with the decriminalization of marijuana. Makes me wonder how much is being paid to hire an airhead to spout nonsense.

Is this chick Smoking Crack nor what???? There is no proof that pot is more addicrtive tham herion,, who's cock is she sucking????

Top DEA agent won’t admit heroin more harmful than marijuana

"Sheeesh I hope it wasn't BO that put this Idiot in charge!!! Thanks Jared, another Colorado home grown Hero, for Grilling her empty head!!!!" =))=