Up in Smoke or Nickel and Dime on DEA

Maybe it is because of second hand highs from rising columns of burning marijuana smoke

Or the hypocrisy of the DEA in lack of enforcement highlighting a drug prohibition system that is broke

Rep Lieu from the Golden State puts forth a bill to defund marijuana eradication by the DEA

Even though 4 million plants are destroyed to pot lovers’ dismay

If in D.C. the use of marijuana is not banned even for recreational use

Why not go for the whole enchilada instead of DEA funding trying to reduce?

The issue of effects of marijuana when in long term use

Needs some serious research and debate not some half assed defunding excuse

Marijuana like alcohol affects the brain  but also the lungs long term in ways not completely known

The jury is out on what kind of behavioral or lung cancer seeds are being sown

Nothing breeds more contempt and  disrespect for the law than when certain laws not enforced  are not reformed

Causing more and more the violations of our legal framework to be suborned

Perhaps a debate awareness needed first step but more like a bill of nickel and dime

Rather than a needed discussion of whether marijauna use should or should not be a crime

If yes as black neighborhoods are of young males being stripped

And black families apart totally ripped

What should the penalties be or instead how much should rehab prevail?

Clear that we have way too many non violent expensive to maintain prisoners in our jails

If not what are the proper consumer safety regs, warning labels and taxes to assess

Not to kill a golden goose but to put the blood sucking drug cartels under great duress

© June 10, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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