US NM: Editorial: DEA Shouldn’t Offer Medical Opinions

Clovis News Journal, 21 Jul 2011 – Once again, government servants have told Americans that marijuana ranks right up there with heroin. The Drug Enforcement Agency ruled on July 8 that marijuana has "no accepted medical use" and will continue as a schedule 1 drug – the most forbidden category. The DEA is a law enforcement bureaucracy. The medical opinions of law enforcement bureaucrats should be of little interest. We do not ask cops to make laws; we pay cops to enforce the laws established by constitutions or enacted by the people or the decisions of their representatives.