Medical marijuana should end up big winner after today’s sequester

[oscar169]

Unlike most politicians who felt the need to go through their bucket list before today’s automatic budget cuts kick in, MMJ dispensaries can actually view the sequester as an achievement.
According to a report from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, the Drug Enforcement Administration stands to lose $166 million from its current $2.02 billion staffing and appropriation budget.
With such a dramatic reduction in budget, there’s reason to believe that the DEA might finally stop wasting resources on medical marijuana considered legal by governing states.
In addition to the DEA’s spending reduction, the historically pointless War on Drugs is set to suffer budget cuts throughout the board:
DOD’s Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities budget of $1.6 billion will be reduced by $157 million
DOJ’s Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement budget of $528 million will be reduced by $43 million
The DEA Diversion Control Fee Account budget of $335 million will be reduced by $25 million
The Office of National Drug Control Policy budget of $25 million will be reduced by $2 million
The High-intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program budget of $239 million will be reduced by $20 million
“Other Federal Drug Control Programs,” with a total budget of $100 million, will undergo $8 million in cuts

 

[chickenman]

Will see...

 

[fishwhistle]

I dont think so,If anything they will stop looking for meth houses or cartels transporting cocaine and heroin,MMJ is just too easy of a high profile target for them to give up,they get the most exposure and its easy pickings plus if junkies start overdosing on smack all over the place they can say ''see what happens when you cut off our money?You NEED us!"
If you go to work on monday and your boss says were cutting your pay by 20% so you can choose to do a really hard job or a really easy one which one are you going to pick?

 

[green punk]

Now the ballers who have assets will go down. Asset forfeiture will finance them now.

 

[Capulator]

Now the ballers who have assets will go down. Asset forfeiture will finance them now.

EXACTLY> :greedy:

 

[wowhydroponics]

When the cuts kick in people will no longer be able to afford pain meds, anxiety meds, ADHD meds, depressive meds, hormones etc.
One prescription is from 50 to 100 bucks, five or six(which is what the average American is on) goes well into the thousands per month. Mmm is far, far cheaper.
What one would spend $750 on prescription meds a month at the government prices they spend $80 to $100 a month with mmj. Much less if they grow their own.

 

[baba G]

1.6 billion - 157 million = a shitload of money still, those reductions are minimal if anything...
i.e. 25million - 2 million....I doubt we see any difference.

 

[dirk d]

gov't jobs pay way too much, too many benefits and it's time they get to feel a little of what everyone else is feeling. Too much taxes and too much debt. cut gov't spending even more i say.

 

[fishwhistle]

I read the other day that this sequester only cuts 2 cents out of every dollar of govt spending and you can bet your ass that the cuts will hurt the everyday joe MUCH more than it will hurt any govt agency,they know how to cover their own asses,fuck they will probably end up getting a raise out of it.
How many cents of each govt dollar do you think are wasted?if they cut 50 cents of every dollar i truly beleive we could still find more wasted money.