Double Standards: The REAL job of the DEA

DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else. It's classic Big Government pseudoscientific quackery and it's a lot like Mexico: armed enforcers, drug profits, turf wars... except in the U.S., it's all "legal" under the monopolistic protection of the FDA -- an agency that has always sought to protect Big Pharma's market monopolies.

Big Pharma takes over the drug trade, using its own private gang of armed enforcers known as DEA agents. The real job of the DEA, you see, is not to protect people from dangerous drugs, but rather to protect the profits of Big Pharma by shooting, arresting or otherwise destroying anything that competes with Big Pharma. Namely, street dealers of marijuana. ~Natural News

Public expense...

Arkansas is a corrupt state. A place of venal and crafty narcs and politicians. Read 'Van Buren County, Arkansas' in HOAX for this author's overview.

As with all police states, the prison population grows because that's what a police state does to its victims and enemies; warehouses them at public expense.

While the rest of the states are starting to cut back on expanding prison population simply out of fiscal concerns, Arkansas leads the pack in expansion and most of those new prisoners are drug offenders. Arkansas is bucking the popular trend of lightening up on the drug issue because they know the simple public still buys into the war on drug fantasy that has worked so well for so many years.

In 2007, the narcs lead by Shirley Arkansas narco and now mayor Johnny Sowell, fabricated what they called a $5,000,000 marijuana grow and alleged the ringleader to be a local man by the name of Joe Honea. Joe didn't know what a joint looked like but DEA agent Sowell got lots of press with the accusation, arrest and long (long) process of going to trail.

In an amazing turn around for the federal bench, the judge in Honea's case, though he could not reverse the 'guilty' verdict handed down by an ignorant jury led astray by deceptive tactics, reduced the sentence (which could have been 15 years) to 'time served' -- a total of two weeks in jail.

Such bravery by a federal judge is very rare. Click here to read what the judge had to say about all this. Still, in the main, the travesty goes on.

In 2009, the Arkansas prison population increased by an average of 114 people a month. An 3.3% increase. Interestingly, the federal prison system (BOP) continues to rise exponentially also whilst the federal bench orders certain states (California for one) to reduce the size of their population. The BOP is about 40% over capacity. Mostly drug cases, and most of them for marijuana. ~~~

Where's the Beef?

In September of 2007, officials (including the DEA) busted a marijuana grow site in Van Buren County, Arkansas, alleging that over 9000 plants worth over $5million were seized. Watch the video and let us know what you think....

To keep the uninformed ignorant...

People of Eger, in the Sudetenland (now Cheb, Czech Republic),
greet German soldiers with the Hitler salute in October 1938.
~Wikipedia

A correspondent writes: That's what the so-called 'war on drugs' is all about.  One extreme irony of that most hated descriptor is that there is no intended reference to the 'legitimate' drugs that should also be in the crosshairs.  If the 'gubbmint' people in charge cared to give it some thought, and cared enough to ponder the meanings of statistical evidence compiled by their own minions and toadies, they would find themselves confronted with some very damning evidence that makes zero sense in the context of 'demon weed' and other illegal substances: 

One of the top five causes of death in the United States is prescription drugs. Yet, billions of dollars are spent developing and promoting these demon-pharmaceuticals, and the drug companies that market them have the backing of the FDA, AMA and other groups whose social prestigue dazzles our underinformed customer base. 

I have to say that's a chicken-shit way to go about it. Grow up. Grow Pot. Legalize it, bankrupt the DEA and let it go. ~Call Me Diogenes

I am sick to death of the greatest ongoing criminal enterprise both inside and outside of Wall Street that is not being scrutinized by the public eye. The Drug Enforcement Agency is a den of thieves. It is the most powerful 'para-military' agency on the face of the earth.

Our elected cognoscenti either know this and are complicit or are stupidly naive and oblivious to the handwriting on the wall. Either way, our national security and personal well-being is in deep danger. The war on drugs is steadily spilling across our southern border and the real reason for this is staring us right in the face.

We want the DEA investigated and audited, and we want people like Congressman Ron Paul to take on this mission.




Paul is out to abolish the Fed (which isn't a bad idea) but he is also open to legalizing marijuana and ending the war on drugs. And the facts he lays out in the above video about the war in Afghanistan equally apply to the drug-war. We say he should start digging into the DEA. We hope that someone who is close to him will pass along HOAX.

This is an urgent endeavor for America. We say that just as the police will investigate an individual for theft if others accuse him of it, so too can the Marijuana Prisoners Committee produce thousands of men who will testify the DEA came into their homes and stole money, jewelry (especially Rolex watches), cars, boats and whatever else they deemed spoils of war, just exactly as Hitler's Gestapo did.

This absolute historical parallel alone should be adequate foundation to launch an investigation. We, the Marijuana Prisoners Committee, find cause to believe the DEA
agents steal at least a hundred million dollars a year in cash above and beyond what is reported as (the legalized theft of) 'seized assets' from those they arrest and it is way past time to do something about this. ~~~

Eddy Lepp

Charles Edward Lepp is a Vietnam War veteran, currently serving a 10-year sentence for the crime of "conspiracy and cultivation with the intent to distribute marijuana".

Photo: 420 Magazine



According to Wikipedia, "Lepp became the first person arrested, tried, and acquitted under California’s medical marijuana law. A subsequent raid on his property in 2002 resulted in confiscation but not prosecution. After this, the gardens really took off, and Lepp devotedly explored the intersections between the religious and medical uses of marijuana. The couple formed a church, Lepp became an ordained minister, and their property became known as Eddy’s Medicinal Gardens and Multi-Denominational Chapel of Cannabis and Rastafari where he grew more than 20,000 pot plants in plain view of a state highway in Northern California's Lake County.

This large grow, even though compliant with California law, did not sit well with Federal officials who arrested him again and barred him from using medical marijuana or religious defenses. He was convicted in September 2008. From time to time, we will share some of Eddy's comments:

"Visits are a wonderful thing. Sadly for must of us they happen way too seldom. A friend of mine has been in for 14 years with 6 left to go and has had 3 visits total. For a country that encourages family values, we do little to encourage they last with outrageous sentences from the start." ~Eddy Lepp

DEA = Drug Extortion Army

Photo credit: Shay Sowden

From a photo-essay published by laist

Right after the Nov. 2 election that saw the close defeat of Prop 19, the US Justice Dept., acting on orders from the DEA (Drug Extortion Army) came to Calif. and met with several Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSA) to map strategy to crush the expansion of the medical marijuana movement. First on the list is Oakland, Calif. and that city's plan to set up and license huge indoor cultivation projects so the city can benefit from badly needed taxation. Since the entire state is broke, that makes sense. 

But the DEA is having none of it. They are contemplating a broad attack on all facets of the med pot trade and Inmate9 believes that means raids on grow-sites this year. Big raids.


The DEA will deputize every cop in sight as well as the national guard and start choping by early summer. Just because Attorney General Holder said it was all right last year means nothing after Nov. 2.


He's changed his mind and we can expect no help from the Obama administration in the future. Obama has turned out to be just another expedient politician. The only diff was he was a black one and he was even a pot smoker himself!

Oh, well. If you are a med-grower and have never been involved with the cops and especially the feds, be ready for some grief. The DEA is all powerful and the feds cheat in court. No one wins against them.

Inmate9 expects to see a new surge of brothers in arms flooding in here soon. Do not forget fellow pot legalziationers, the 'exclusionary rule.' The Federal Government trumps the states in almost all things. The state laws do not protect you in any way. What we must hope for is an awakening to the brewing scandal that is the DEA theft mill.

We say subponea ten thousand drug dealers that have served or are serving time now who say they have been robed by DEA. Write your congressman and demand an investigation of the DEA.  


Don't forget, the DEA knows it's critical to defeat the legalize-marijuana-effort. If marijuana were to be legalized it would be the end for DEA and the money they steal daily from drug dealers. DEA must keep the drug cartels in control of the marijuana trade and since anyone should know so called interdiction does nothing to blunt the trade, keeping their collaborators, the cartels in control is the whole point.


The Drug Extortion Army, which number a little over 10,000 men and women, are estimated to steal over $100,000,000 in cash per year. ~~~

National Security

HOAX: Manifesto of the Marijuana Prisoners Committee To End the War on Drugs, a PDF book by Inmate9 now availble for immediate download, begins a new dialog. When they handcuff children in the name of law and order (see article in post, below), they go too far. We must demand a Congressional investigation. A critical analytic look at our nationl secruity, with no rose-colored hyperbole.

Action must be as swift and immediate as a surgeon removing a cancerous tumor. Consider, we live today in a world where the police we pay to guard our liberty are taught to lie. In fact they are taught that it is their duty to dupe and coerce others because this is somehow necessary to safeguard our common good.

Can anyone say "Orwellian double-speak"? How about poppycock...!!!

Dear Inmate9

Can Lady Liberty tollerate
so many behind bars?

As I read this article I couldn't help but think of you... and everyone else in this country. How could "we the people" let this happen to us? I've asked myself that question many times, and I keep recalling that the answer was given thousands of years ago in early Old Testament writings, to wit: "Give us a king." When people are too lazy, too ignorant, too apathetic to look after themselves and their needs they find it expedient to subject themselves to the alleged wisdom of someone more powerful than they are. Where does the enhanced power come from? From us. We abdicate our own thrones and pass the collective torch to some entity that we mistakenly perceive will take better care of us than we can. Sheesh!!! We all should think more like this.

Did you know...?

In 2009, 1,663,582 people were arrested for some sort of drug-related crime. Of those, over half (51.6%) were arrested for marijuana with 758,593 people (45.6%) arrested for marijuana possession alone.

Did you know...?

Edwards AFB. Photo courtesy Wiki Commons

Edwards Air Force base was used to off load cocaine in the mid 1980's by the CIA?

Did you know...?

The CIA may have left a $600,000,000 treasure in gold buried in Paradise California left over from Iran-Contra?

Marijuana Prisoners Committee

On January 11, 2011, the Marijuana Prisoners Committee will post its manifesto for a new strategy on ending the War on Drugs. Listen to the true experts -- those who have fallen prey to this insanity -- and begin to pass the word lest you end up in a Federal Prison, cannon fodder for a corrupt Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and its fellow travelers. We have about ten years left.