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Fair enough, but that doesn't change the fact that if DEA is going to continue to exist, then the organization is in desperate need of a complete overhaul.

Paramilitary style policing, holding guns to innocent 11 year-olds' heads, and expensive propaganda campaigns for the sake of social engineering are not acceptable.

I have a question: Why does she need to know?

I mean it would be nice if the head of the DEA knew all the ins and outs of drugs, but do they REALLY need to?

Does the CFO of a software company need to know HTML, C++, etc.? No! They need to know accounting and managing money.

The head of the DEA seems like a job more about ensuring efficiency and managing people than knowing the life expectantcies of drug users.

The head of the DEA dictates the country's drug policy, so it's more than managing an enforcement agency.

All she needed to answer that question was the image below from the Psychopharmacology Department at Bristol University.

Sure, the President could technically nominate his uncle. So yeah, I guess they don't need to be prepared or know anything about drugs like Michelle Leonhart.

Ideally, the head of the DEA should know about all drugs. When the head of the DEA dictates policy, they should know all about treatments, addiction potential, and the best approaches towards drug education; otherwise, enforcement won't be as efficient as it could be. More than that, he or she needs to know about the biggest epidemic facing our nation-- legal prescription drugs.

Instead of updating our nation's drug policy, Leonhart has set an agency policy of raiding medicinal marijuana dispensaries, as if they are no different than street dealers and traffickers (in states where medicinal marijuana is legal). Beyond that, she's corrupt, and spent $123,000 on a vacation to Columbia.

All Michelle Leonhart knows is law enforcement. She knows nothing about the more modern science that is critical to creating a more effective drug policy. Instead, she uses 20th century propaganda to dictate her policy. Because she's stuck in the past, the creators of bath salts and synthetic marijuana (or "spice") have subverted our country's archaic drug enforcement policy. Every time the government makes the active ingredient in these products illegal, the chemists simply manipulate the molecule. The new molecule makes their product legal again, and the bath salts and spice containing the new molecule are put on the shelf without any testing. Because George Bush and Barrack Obama thought Leonhart could manage a law enforcement agency and ignored her lack of knowledge about drug policy, children are literally dying.

And you're advocating that all we need is a good manager to head up the DEA?

Sorry to be blunt, but kids are dying because of that approach, man. We need someone to head the DEA who's up-to-date on science, knows about contemporary drug policies, knows about the latest studies on drug education, and is a good manager.

LOL at this moron. That was embarrassing to watch

I once spoke to a black dude in person, which obviously makes me non-racist.

Like I posted earlier, she probably made a pragmatic decision to not open up drug policy with a personal statement that contradicts current federal law/policy.

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