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Taxpayers are paying $60 for every pot plant the DEA destroys in Oregon
The Drug Enforcement Administration spent $960,000 to destroy marijuana plants in that state in 2014 as part of its "Cannabis Eradication Program," according to a recent report by NBC affiliate KGW in Portland, Ore. That year, the DEA succeeded in removing 16,067 pot plants from Oregon, which at first blush sounds like a lot of weed. But when you do the math, that works out to a cost to taxpayers of $60 per uprooted plant. That is a lot when you consider that nationally...
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I wish this was the defunding fight in Congress instead of Planned Parenthood. Would make a whole lot more economic sense.
"The DCE/SP is a nationwide law enforcement program that exclusively targets marijuana" "From January through July 2014, DCE/SP enforcement operations accounted for the eradication of 3,974,739 marijuana plants" p57
DEA FY 2016 Performance Budget
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jm...1/25._drug_enforcement_administration_dea.pdf
How many of those marijuana plants were actually okra grown by septuagenarians?
What a waste. I hope they understand that they are literally killing joy. I can't wait until weed is legalized everywhere. What a true cost-saving measure that will be.