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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Members of Congress Hope to Slash DEA's Cannabis Eradication Budget 🌿Members of Congress Hope to Slash DEA's Cannabis Eradication Budget
The federal government is still spending millions of dollars eradicating marijuana plants, even spending money in states that have legalized cannabis. While law enforcement officials have claimed that they need these funds to help battle cartels, some members of Congress state that historical data shows that a vast majority of plants eradicated under Uncle Sam’s marijuana eradication program are merely wild plants descended from industrial hemp. These members of Congress are hoping to cut the marijuana eradication budget by half (very happy and not surprised to see my representative, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, as a signer to the letter). The fact that a group of House Democrats are wanting to slash the Drug Enforcement Administration’s budget is just the latest bit of bad news for the DEA as Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post reports:
The chief of the agency stepped down in April
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