A former spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has admitted that the real reason for keeping marijuana illegal is because it generates billions of dollars in revenue for the American government.
According to Belita Nelson, the DEA have known for years that marijuana has many health benefits, but due to the fact that the agency make so much money via the civil asset forfeiture law, it will never be legalized nationwide.
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Theantimedia.org reports:
In our interview, Belita was hesitant to speak too openly but mentioned that when she first went to work with the DEA (she was contacted and became familiar with agency’s goals), she was told:
“‘Marijuana is safe, we know it’s safe, but it’s our cash cow and we will never, ever, give it up.’”
When the DEA seizes a car or makes a drug bust, it’s likely they’ll find wads of money.
They turn in the pot (or other drugs) — and keep the cash. Civil asset forfeiture law essentially gives the police and feds free reign, and they have confiscated billions of dollars from Americans, a majority of whom have not been charged with a crime.
Belita, like many people, posits that the DEA is not willing to give up the long disproven idea that marijuana is a “gateway drug.” Unlike heroin, most people are open to trying marijuana.
At high school or college parties, it’s much more likely that a joint is being passed around than a needle. While a joint conjures up images of Bob Weir or SOJA on stage, a needle brings to mind a lifeless Philip Seymour Hoffman or Basquiat.
Belita cut ties with the DEA in 2004 after becoming frustrated with the system and the government’s need to keep marijuana criminalized, despite knowledge that the drug was safe.
While at the Starfish Foundation, Belita heard time and time again the tale of pot-smoking teenagers who were pushed into heroin simply because marijuana carries harsh penalties. And it’s a story that’s been told repeatedly.
Today Belita works for the Gridiron Cannabis Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting CTE, concussions, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, neuropathy, dementia, chronic inflammation, Leukemia, and brain and other cancers. But the group’s pockets that only stretch so far.
In contrast, her opposition — and the opposition of anyone fighting the heroin epidemic and hoping to legalize marijuana — are big pharma companies.
Recently, we’ve seen pharma companies hit the grassroots to secure influence. Anti-Media and a number of other news outlets recently reported on an opioid company pumping half a million dollars into Arizona anti-marijuana groups in an effort to keep the plant illegal.
These sorts of campaigns do not serve the dead in Plano and the hundreds of thousands around the nation suffering from opioid addiction.
Rather, they benefit CEOs and pharmaceutical groups who have invested millions in developing drugs that minimize pain. Unfortunately, they come with a dangerously high likelihood of addiction.
Big pharma corporations see dollar signs in every painkiller that moves across a counter, but some of which could easily be replaced by marijuana, which is increasingly proven to help decrease pain.
So the American consumer, from Plano, Texas, to Portland, Maine, is faced with the dilemma — is it better to be a living Bob Weir or a dead Basquiat?
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Berita fails to acknowledge the obvious.
The illegality of drugs is a form of economic warfare against poor communities that bleeds wealth out of these communities preventing local business and enterprise to invest, grow and prosper. It’s also racial and societal warfare as it has the greatest effect on black communities for keeping blacks poor, under-nourished, unhealthy, under-educated, whilst creating a breeding ground for crime, gangs and murder.
Do the Feds really need any of this money back after it gets confiscated; it serves as an anti-inflationary measure within the economy as a whole. (Less dollars chasing real goods and services.) They should just burn the lot of it, and they probably do.
And somewhat finally because this can go on to great lengths, it creates an ‘intellegista state’ of Judicial, Legal, Enforcement, and Incarceration entities that voraciously consume tax dollars—all unnecessary.
But she’s right on her point, marijuana will never be legalized.
The Feds bring all the drugs in… then they lock people up for using them… the government are the real criminals.
The early studies showing findings that marijuana was harmful were good studies about the smoke in marijuana. Taken as a medicine, or as an oil, or other ways demonstrated much less harm and some good effects.