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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Dem lawmaker wants to defund DEA's marijuana eradication program 🌿Dem lawmaker wants to defund DEA's marijuana eradication program
Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.) is pushing legislation to end funding for the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) marijuana eradication program.
“This is a ridiculous waste of precious federal resources, especially when multiple states and jurisdictions have already legalized marijuana,” Lieu said in a statement on Wednesday, according to Fox News.
“It is time for the federal government to stop making marijuana use or possession a federal crime,” he added.
Lieu’s proposed amendment to a 2016 fiscal spending bill would halve the DEA’s $18 million budget for the program, according to the report.
The $9 million saved would be used to fund domestic and sexual abuse support programs for children.
Lieu said on Wednesday that he intends to end the DEA’s program entirely by fiscal 2017.
“Next year, I will bring another amendment to eliminate the program completely,” he said.
Lieu said the DEA’s program is wasteful, given growing support for marijuana decriminalization...
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