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Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

DEA Leader Fumes About White House Playing Softball With Marijuana Legalizers

Author:     STEVEN NELSON
Source:     US News & World Report
Publication Date:     27-Jan-14
 Link: DEA Leader Fumes About White House Playing Softball With Marijuana Legalizers
Stephan:   Here we see the pro-prohibition forces beginning to raise their heads to block the gathering trend against prohibition. There is nothing surprising about this. The ricebowl of the pro-prohibitionists depends on this insane war against American society. If the DEA had nothing to be concerned about but Heroin and Meth they could be reduced to a quarter of the size they presently are. That's why the Sheriffs who heard this speech reacted as they did. Their ricebowls are also at risk. Michele Leonhart says she has spent 33 years working for Americans. I would say she has spent 33 years destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of American families using a policy that has no scientific basis whatever.

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s leader reportedly contradicted President Barack Obama’s views on marijuana during a “closed-door” speech Wednesday and denounced White House staff for playing softball against a team of marijuana activists.

DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart’s candor about her boss and his staff didn’t stay quiet for long.

Key details about Leonhart’s speech at the closed-to-the-press annual winter meeting of the Major County Sheriffs’ Association in Washington, D.C., were reported Saturday by the Boston Herald.

“She was particularly frustrated with the fact that, according to her, the White House participated in a softball game with a pro-legalization group,” Bristol County, Mass., Sheriff Thomas Hodgson told the Herald.

Leonhart spoke to the sheriffs less than a week after The New Yorker published an exclusive interview with Obama, in which he said marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and that “it’s important for [legalization] to go forward” in Colorado and Washington, whose residents voted in November 2012 to allow recreational use of the drug. White House spokesman Jay Carney quickly said Obama’s comments did not reflect any change in his personal position or governmental policy.

“To have the president of the United States publicly say marijuana was a bad habit like alcohol was appalling to everyone in […]

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