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Law
Enforcement:
Drug
Truth
Network
Awards
First
Tin
Foil
Hat
Award
to
DEA's
Tandy
5/26/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/437/tinfoilhat.shtml
The Drug
Truth Network has unveiled its new Tin Foil Hat Award "for outstanding
achievement in the field of outstanding" and selected its first prize-winner,
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) head Karen Tandy. While "tin
foil hats" are commonly associated with whacked-out conspiracy theorists,
Drug Truth is making expansive use of the term to single out especially
stupid or wrongheaded statement about drug policy and give them the attention
they deserve.
Tandy is certainly an outstanding
achiever when it comes to comments like that. As Drug Truth's Dean
Becker notes in his award notification:
* The day she was selected
to be the administrator, in response to a question about medical marijuana
and the findings of the US Institute of Medicine report, Tandy proclaimed:
"I don't read the peripheral reports."
* Last week she told
the Houston Chronicle that when she took on the job of administrator, "I
made money the number one priority. The amount of money the DEA seized
each year has more than quadrupled, to $1.9 billion last year, making the
DEA the rare federal agency that nearly pays for itself," she joked.
Tandy crows about taking
down the "godfather" of marijuana seeds, Canada's Marc Emery, yet the entity
who invented these seeds and is the true father of the seed industry is
widely known to be someone much higher than Mr. Emery.
"For these and at least 1.6
million other reasons, (the number of US citizens arrested each year for
bags of plant products), the Drug Truth Network hereby awards its first
ever Tin Foil Hat Award to Karen P. Tandy," Becker wrote. Congratulations,
Ms. Tandy.
If you have someone you think
merits the award, contact Becker at Drug Truth. And prepare to get
in line.
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