ATF is coming in to provide backup for DEA. The only good side to this is that there will be inter-agency infighting over the dope revenue. DEA vs ATF. Who to root for? All of this on top of the $25.00 a pound Tobacco tax increase. For the children, of course.
If I smoked, I would be looked for an Indian tribe to adopt me! The existence of the ATF offers interesting insights to those who are preaching that legalizing drugs would solve all the problems on our southern border, just like it solved all the problems of prohibition.
The front line on the border isn’t the DEA, it is the Border Patrol, which makes the vast majority of drug seizures. That is to say, nothing the BO administration is doing will address the actual problem.
Regarding the in-fighting between DEA & ATF . It is sort of like watching the battle of Stalingrad develop as a third party observer you realize that both sides are pretty rotten to the core & you hope they could both lose.