It’s Time to Fire the DEA
For more than 40 years, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has fueled mass incarceration, wasted taxpayer money, and blocked scientific research.
IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE. Urge the Obama administration to reform or eliminate the DEA.
The DEA was created in 1973 to enforce federal drug laws. The results have been devastating: wasted resources, mass incarceration, racial disparities, civil rights violations and scandal after scandal. Treating drug use as a criminal justice issue instead of a health issue has led to disaster. Yet Congress has rarely scrutinized the agency, its actions or its budget.
THE FACTS
THE DEA IS A PIVOTAL PLAYER IN THE WAR ON DRUGS, BUT THIS WAR IS A FAILURE!
The drug war pushes for a “drug free” world, but history shows that prohibition doesn’t work.
The drug war wastes law enforcement resources by packing prisons with mostly low- and mid-level offenders.
- The Federal Bureau of Prisons ...
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