more and more states will decriminalize marijuana- at the same time there needs to be pressure at the federal level to follow the states' lead. I suspect that prison populations in some states will be cut in half- which will really hurt the bottom line of the inhuman prison for profit crowd. They won't let that happen without a fight-and they already own a lot of right wing policy makers and legislators. The blessings of liberty have always been hard-won from the forces of fundamentalism and willful evil.

put a bounty on everyone's head as each head they prosecute and incarcerate means bottom line profits and more money to lobby (bribe) legislators to pass more draconian laws that will ensnare more people and impose longer prison terms for victimless crimes.
I remember after 9-11 the Bush cartel made ridiculous assertions that pot smokers were responsible for terrorism because pot money was paying for terrorist activity. In the 60s and 70s the powers that be claimed pot was a communist plot.
Anyone bent on criminalizing reefer has a monetary interest in its prosecution. We already have a higher per capita prison population than any other country. This used to be the land of the free and home of the brave. With a for profit prison system we are essentially selling freedom. The rest of the free world looks at the United States and knows what it doesn't want to be.
The time has come to end the drug war and dismantle the DEA which is nothing more than a dumping ground for those with connections who need jobs with benefits.
We do have to starve the beast and the beast is the drug enforcement bureaucracy and the ancillary bureaucracies that profit from the misery of others.

...Peter Bensinger, John Bartels, Robert Bonner, Thomas Constantine, Asa Hutchinson, John Lawn, Donnie Marshall, and Francis Mullen have been bought and paid for many, many times over by the evil FOR PROFIT human warehousing cabal. They, of course, are wrong, and THAT is the ONLY "no-brainer" here. Arrogant does not even begin to describe these "leaders of enforcement". Now then, lets start investigating THEM.