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...reason the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) can't find these drugs is because they're being consumed (and subsequently regurgitated) too quickly by our citizens. Let's face it--millions of Americans want to get high, and no three letter agency with a bird for a mascot is going to stop them...
Once the large-scale Trans-American Drug War quickly became a massive and deadly lesson of supply and demand, the DEA learned to seek greener public relations pastures. And they found them, in the minute and colorful world...
...seems strange, then, that the DEA's head of LSD operations, Gene Haislip, said at the end of last year about the nation's acid problem, "We've opened up a vein here. We're going to mine it until this whole thing turns around." The problems with this statement run deeper than Haislip's unfortunate drug-addled "vein" analogy. The fact that the DEA has tripled spending and personnel on a drug that doesn't harm anyone physically, doesn't make people harm each other and isn't corrupting national governments in the tropics should make one wonder...
When we wonder why other countries have a hard time taking us seriously as a nation, we need to look no further than the DEA's Sentencing Guidelines...
...DEA is tripling the waste of money, human capital and jail space dedicated to a drug that has no well-documented adverse side effects, a drug with which violence is almost never associated, and a drug which consistently finishes last in market share...