Ex-DEA Chief Lobbying Holder to Nullify Marijuana Legalization Owns a Drug Testing CompanyCoincidentally, the letter was sent the same day that the U.N.sInternational Narcotics Control Board alsosent an appealto Holder to nullify the will of the voters in these states because allowing them to legalize pot is against global drug treaties. It turns out Peter B. Bensinger, who in the letter is representing the lobbying organizationSave Our Society from Drugs, has a huge financial stake in preventing the legalization of cannabis. He is the founder andCEO of a drug testing company. After Bensinger left the DEA he founded Bensinger Dupont Associates which according to their website handles large scale drug testing for corporations: It should be noted that Bensingers partner, Dr. Robert DuPont, is a former White House drug czar. Both have been involved with lobbying groups like theDrug Alcohol Testing Industry Association whowere behind the Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2008whichmade products that help people defraud a drug test illegal. Theyare also behind many of the state bills for drug testing welfare recipients. These drug war profiteers told the public they would save tax dollars by getting junkies kicked off the welfare rolls, yet in the just the first few months of the law passing in Florida last year, the drug testing firms made$118,140 testing welfare applicants,which was significantly more than giving welfare to the few who tested positive for drugs. Also curiously timed, this new lobbying push comes only a day after a bill was introduced in the U.S. Congress to drug test all welfare recipients nationwide. The bill has obvious Constitutional ramifications to the privacy of recipients, which the bill addressesby forcing people seeking aid to sign a waiver of constitutional rights with respect to testing, Bensinger and his cohorts in the drug testing industry represent just one of the many industries that are lobbying to keep the failed war on drugs alive, and theyre willing to subvert democracy and the Constitution to do it. Read other articles by selfnews Post Here 