Ban the DEA
Drug Enforcement Administration
The DEA is the world’s leading drug enforcement agency (say they) with more than 9,000 employees, including almost 600 stationed in 62 foreign countries around the globe. As the only single-mission federal agency dedicated to drug law enforcement… [they have] the critical resources necessary to reduce the availability of illicit drugs and the diversion of licit drugs and precursor chemicals in America.
Wonder what they are doing with them.
Established in the 1970s under that great respecter of legality, Slippery Dick Nixon, it has grown in tandem with the availability of drugs, from a budget of $65 million in 1972 to $2.6 billion in 2009, a whopping 4,000% increase. [source: DEA, if you believe them]
FY 2010 stats: $2,015 million (8,378 positions; 5,312 agents) 
A DEA DOA would save over $2 billion a year, a slice of the enormous expense of waging a pointless war on drugs arbitrarily classified as illegal. A war with a record of failure spanning over four decades.
The DEA promotes domestic loss of freedom, particularly their gestapo-like midnight raids, where residents and their pets are accidentally killed in their homes, then dismissed as “collateral damage.” Sound familiar?
Ironically, part of the Justice Department, the DEA would prefer that discussing legalisation not be protected speech. After all, that kind of talk might endanger agencies supported by the never-ending Drug War. DEA hurts relations with other countries, creating more hatred of the US than is warranted by foreign policy SNAFUs, like accidental invasions.
It is difficult arguing for decriminalisation to a stupefied populace, already high on drugs, illicit and licit. Closing the DEA would not change the law, merely reduce future debt accumulation.
Savings from eliminating the DEA for fiscal 2012 alone: over $2 billion. If that doesn’t seem like much, imagine all the drugs we could buy with it.
A series on unnecessary federal bureaucracies whose demise would eliminate waste. Feel free to make suggestions.
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