As if any one person in the DEA has the knowledge to determine what a doctor is allowed to do in their profession.
The DEA is a rouge element who's sole interest is in providing clients to the private prison system that has infected our society.
I hope the AMA or State officials step in fix this situation soon.

She should have been fired years ago and blackballed from government service.

Replace it with someone who's pro-marijuana and understand the meaning of drug of abuse.

Like cocaine. Like heroin (RIP Dave Brockie). Like meth. They are all dangerous drugs and can kill you.

I'll even throw in cigarettes and alcohol in that category

Cannabis cannot.

She should get that in her head.

I think congress needs to fire the entire DEA though. They only thing they do is make dangerous drugs even more dangerous. RIP Dave Brockie.

To perpetuate itself. regardless of the magnitude of human misery that creates. Nice work, if you can get it. And are a certified utterly corrupted psychopath.

-90% Jimmy

have outlived their usefulness and are threats to personal freedom.

fucking parasites.

all it is is them seeing their careers being flushed down the toilet as the country is deciding it no longer has any use for them. its their desperate last gasp attempt at keeping a paycheck. once pot is legal nationwide the DEA is done. sure they might still go after a meth buy here or an LSD sell there, but thats small time, theres no cash in that.

parasitic agency is really too kind a way to describe the dea

The powers that be where crazy with fright during the sixties. The war against personal freedom will not end.

But no doubt, a large leaning against personal freedom has been there for the last 130 years

prior to Big Pharma/Big Ag taking over and monopolizing the marijuana trade and GMO-izing the product. The DEA is not just feathering its own nest, although it is doing that; it is serving the corporate rulers, doing the prep for Corporate's monopoly.

This happened in Colombia on a bigger and much bloodier scale: the brutal displacement of FIVE MILLION peasant farmers, at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $7 BILLION (just the known costs)--with many people killed, many lives ruined. NOW the new corporate-friendly president of Colombia (as opposed to the prior Bush Junta-serving, military/death squad-friendly, mafia don president) has come out for the complete legalization of all drugs. Ain't that ironical! Overall, the goal has been prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich"--the murders of thousands of trade unionists and other advocates of the poor, as well as displacing millions of small coca leaf, MJ and food growers, and--not incidentally--creating a slave labor force for corporatization.

What the DEA is doing is APPALLING. But, like many an appalling thing, we can't look to our president or any of our Democratic leaders to stop it. They know what these horrors are for. They themselves work for the corporate rulers, --bought and paid for, and s/elected by the corporate-run 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines. When the time is ripe for the corporate takeover of MJ, they will find no use for the DEA (or worse, will find another use for it--say, enforcing GMO patents? or finding bugs in the brownies of any remaining small shops?).

Some might say that corporatization of MJ, if it brings legalization, will be better than the current horrors and that the complete legalization of MJ in the U.S. cannot happen unless big corporations are behind it. I have to say that this is true. But it's like saying that drone assassinations and chaotic destabilization of countries, with CIA gun running and USAID funds to "rebels," is better than "shock and awe" bombing of a hundred thousand innocent people. Yeah, the one is less overtly bloody than the other. But should it be called "liberal"? Is it good government? Is it right? Is it democratic?

We need to be realists about this. NOBODY in power is going to stop the DEA until big, multinational corporations are ready to profit from legalization.

with medical marijuana. Put the fear of arrest into those most likely to do the research. Now it is not just a war on drugs it is a war to stop any kind of research that might actually help the situation.

I love President Obama but I think he needs to stop using the DEA and other organizations to stop what may be an answer for many of us. These organization have a vested interest in keeping the status quo.

this isn't targeting doctors who prescribe MJ.

Its targeting doctors who own (or sit on boards of or are officers of) MJ dispensaries.

Its still crap because a doctor can sit on the board or be an employee of Teva Pharmaceuticals (Fentanyl) without losing his or her DEA license.

I'm losing patience.

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Marijuana should be an over the counter medication. It is not a narcotic. DEA is doing this because it doesn't want those who write the prescriptions supplying the medicine too. BUT they are only doing this to run interference for BigPharma plotting their corporate takeover and eliminating competition. They should permanently ban all grow operations over 1000 plants and keep it in the hands of real farmers.