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This past weekend, the Boulder Daily Camera reported that the agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency are organizing in opposition to Colorado's Amendment 44, a ballot initiative which would eliminate criminal penalties under Colorado law for the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

The DEA has, according to the Rocky Mountain News, already spent $10,000 retaining a campaign manager to fight Amendment 44. The conservative News editorial board notes that "not only could the federal government's vast resources distort the tenor of debate within a state, it would also force out-of-state taxpayers to underwrite political campaigns that have no impact on them."

All Colorado citizens are free to participate in our electoral process, but the DEA's heavy-handed involvement in this issue is grossly inappropriate. Federal taxpayer dollars should never be used to impose the federal government's will on a local ballot question.

Click below: tell the DEA to stop spending our taxpayer money trying to manipulate our local elections.

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DEA Flips
By Erin Rosa Aug 30th 2006 at 5:17 pm EDT
Now, it would appear that the DEA is changing its story:

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Re: DEA Flips
By Alan Franklin Aug 31st 2006 at 12:12 pm EDT
About as crafty with this stuff as Bob Beauprez's campaign manager, I see. Both Ways DEA, anyone?
  
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