DEA Just Squandered Tens of Thousands on a Single Bust to Eradicate Non-Existent Pot PlantsBy Claire Bernish As journalist Drew Atkins discovered via a records request, thats $58,400 in tax money taken from the American public, who, overwhelmingly in recent years have come to favor the eradication of cannabis prohibition rather than cannabis. Nearly as absurd as the Utah marijuana eradication attempt, the Washington Post reported, the Drug Enforcement Administration gave the State of New Hampshire $20,000 last year for eradicating the marijuana and netted a single grow operation comprising a mere 27 cannabis plants. As the Post calculated, American taxpayers shelled out $740.74 for each plant in that meager and unnecessary bust. Nevertheless, the DEA continues its vain attempt to wipe out marijuana from the United States at our expense whether or not taxpayers approve and, in many cases, regardless of its legal status. Although reduced from a budget of $18 million in 2014, the annihilation of the cannabis plant still somehow necessitates $14 million this fiscal year, the Post noted, delegated to states in wildly disproportionate amounts, with some like Alaska, Vermont, North and South Dakota, and Colorado not receiving any funding at all. California, where medical use is legal and cannabis has been decriminalized, received $5.4 million in 2015 and netted 2.6 million plants, according to DEA records cited by the Post, in part because the Emerald Triangle region of Northern California. The area has long been home to many of the states legal and quasi-legal marijuana production operations, but law enforcement authorities have maintained that it also has been a haven for the grow operations of Mexican drug cartels. A mishmash of varied laws governing the legality and criminality of marijuana have resulted from federal prohibition an outdated and unpopular ban reinforced by the FDA and DEA recently after intimations the harmless plant might be rescheduled so as not to be considered as dangerous as heroin and cocaine. This war on weed has clearly outlived any pretense of legitimacy and merely serves to fund for-profit prisons, flood courts, and permanently mar the records of otherwise non-violent, non-criminals. Last year, FBI data revealed a stunning 643,000 Americans one person every 49 seconds had been arrested for possession of cannabis. That constitutes 43 percent of all drug arrests in the United States where fully half the states have legalized medical use, four have fully legalized cannabis, and at least seven have incredibly popular initiatives for the November election that are either new or expansions of existing laws. Although it hasnt been given a snowballs chance in hell at passing, New Jersey even proposed a law in September where weed would be treated like cigarettes and sold in convenience stores accordingly to anyone aged 19 or older. Kentucky still receives a staggering $1.9 million to pull up its marijuana plants, and the Post reported, Rounding out the top 5 marijuana eradication states are Tennessee, Georgia and, perhaps unexpectedly, Washington. The aptly nicknamed Evergreen State legalized the recreational use of marijuana in 2012, and pot shops opened for business in 2014. So it may seem odd that the DEA is spending $760,000 this year to eradicate pot plants in the state. Cannabis prohibition, and its parallel utterly wasteful eradication program, has outlived any viability and credibility it once might have, if ever, claimed. Its time and has been for decades to end the war on drugs. Claire Bernish writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. What is it that the American people cannot get though their heads? The mainstream media is just one of the MANY tentacles of the globalist Satanic ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE that is hell-bent on destroying America freedom and all that is good. The illegitimate people you describe are criminals. They are leaders in USGov, people we have elected and many whom we have NOT elected, but were installed in their positions by criminal leaders. Most of that money goes into the pockets of the Satanic politicians who passed the legislation appropriated the funding into the pockets of their criminal bureaucratic cronies who are supposedly enforcing the law . Satanic BIG PHARMA is behind this because marijuana is very effective medically very inexpensive The pharmacy industry if only one of the numerous criminal agencies and criminal leadership that support keeping cannabis on the illegal list. The private prisons are kept full with the suppression of cannabis. Just think of all the little police forces around the US that get additional DEA money, which is used to hire an additional cop who seeks out school kids to hammer. The Dept of Health and Human Services of the U.S. Government holds a patent on cannabis, due to its medicinal value, briefly explained by this excerpt: The patent and Abstract of curative usages is at this link: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=6630507.PN.OS=PN/6630507RS=PN/6630507 Thanks for the in depth explanation of their criminality. Plz goto the link and read all the curative properties that the criminals in USGov, Pharma, AMA, and FDA are denying in all public releases. Genuine cannabis oil also has similar healing properties, and cannabis oil can be obtained without violating the stupid law. Best Regards, doc b. HillBIllary beast when selected by the rigged voting machines will tighten the strings on Cannibis and put pressure on the states that have nixed the prohibition. This while the State police in those States are the ones responsible for trafficking it into your Neighborhoods-! check out how Eco Terrorist, Big pharma Monsanto- (others ) like the United nations, criminally wiping out all medicinal Hemp, World Wide for over 30 plus years-! How about the US military in Afghanistan-! implementing their Eco Terrorism w/ US Soldier Patsys. re planting Big Pharma Monsanto Hemp-! guarding it-! Marinol Weeding all the CushAfghanistan hemp -! this going back before the Wrong Way Worriers False Flag Terrorism, projects ever got started-! for Eco Terrorist, control gain-! 