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"a small percentage of the pop"

Of what? I don't understand "pop".

A small percentage of DEA arrests? Of convictions? Of incarcerations? Of tons of seizures? Of dollars of seizures?* Of their overall focus/effort?

99% of marijuana arrests are made at the state or local level. Look at the DEA budget and you'll see that about half of it is for drug awareness/education and anti-drug advertising and the other half is for drug interdiction at our borders and overseas.

You can pull marijuana out and it wouldn't change a thing at the federal level.

If marijuana were legalized and regulated, I would posit that the number of DEA agents would increase to prevent marijuana exports to other countries. In addition, I agree the BATF would expand -- to the BATFM to monitor marijuana retail licensing and growing operations.

Financed by marijuana taxes, of course. But those agencies will grow.

* Marijuana represents about 15% of what Americans spend on illegal drugs.

Pop=population.

A small percentage of people who are taking cocoa and opium derivatives, between 6% and 8% last I saw the numbers.

Then why are greater than half of people in federal prisons there for those offenses?

Ah, so the DEA budget doesn't allow pursuit and prosecution of cannabis related offenses, there being no money in the budget for them?

You can pull marijuana out and it wouldn't change a thing at the federal level.

LOL

15% of America's drug money goes to cannabis? And 8% are using cocoa and opium derivatives? And The taxpayer is spending billions on this "war", gouging the constitutions, corruption of law enforcement agencies with "funding" from asset seizures, destroying families, killing people, escalating costs for incarceration and filling the prisons for that?