Professor Dominic Armentano writes here about a recent raid conducted by the DEA on Oaksterdam University, a trade school in California. The grounds for the raid? There were cannabis plants in the school for educational purposes. No consumption or sale. The school’s operations were perfectly legal under state law, but that doesn’t matter in the least to the authoritarians in charge of the DEA.
I had thought that Obama might at least ease up somewhat on the drug war, but our supposedly “liberal” president has ramped it up. Civil libertarians who backed Obama, assuming that he would be attuned to their vision of an America where federal agents had to respect individual rights and stop engaging in storm trooper tactics, should realize that they were had.