What is this about increased "traffic accidents and trouble in the workplace"? Hasn't Mr. Bensinger heard about alcohol? As the old sixties song goes, "When will they ever learn?"
Former D.E.A. Chiefs Seek to Block Legal Pot - NYTimes.com: "Every past administrator of the 37-year-old Drug Enforcement Administration is calling on the Justice Department to sue California if its voters decide to legalize marijuana in November.
Peter Bensinger, who ran the D.E.A. from January 1976 to July 1981, said legalizing the recreational use of pot, even in one state, would be a “disaster,” leading to increased addiction, traffic accidents and trouble in the workplace. So, he and the eight other former D.E.A. administrators are asking the Obama administration to step in – much as it did when the Arizona Legislature passed its tough new immigration law this spring. ...
A spokesman for the Justice Department said it could not speculate on what it would do if the measure passes. “The federal government is committed to enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act and the Department of Justice will continue to focus its enforcement resources on significant traffickers of illegal drugs, including marijuana, in all states,” he said." Sept. 13, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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