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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 DEA Special Agent speaks out against legalization of marijuana, other illicit drugs 🌿DEA Special Agent speaks out against legalization of marijuana, other illicit drugs
Doug Coleman, Special Agent in Charge in Phoenix for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has spent much of his career tracking illegal drugs, like marijuana, to their roots.
“Our goal is to go after the biggest and baddest drug traffickers, so we actually target the people who are calling the shots,” he told ABC15. The people who are calling the shots, he said, are often the major drug cartels in Mexico.
“Methamphetamine, heroine and marijuana,” he said, “the Mexican cartels control all those; they manufacturer all those.”
Unlike the former DEA agent who’s campaigning to legalize marijuana who we interviewed recently , Coleman is against the legalization of any of those kinds of drugs in the United States – including marijuana – but maybe not for the reasons you’d expect.
He doesn’t think illicit drugs are going anywhere.
“We have to, as a society, realize, it’s never going to...
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