Michele Marie Leonhart is an American career law enforcement officer and the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Leonhart has consistently turned down research into the therapeutic and medicinal benefits of marijuana, and has a track record of undermining state law with regard to legal medical marijuana. On July 21, 2010, several pro-legalisation groups called on President Obama to withdraw his support of Leonhart, including SSDP, MPP, NORML, LEAP, and DPA. [10]

In 2011, the Washington Post reported that "994 people younger than 18 were killed in drug-related violence between late 2006 and late 2010" and that "[i]n 2009, the last year for which there is data, 1,180 children were killed, half in shootings."[11] In response to these statistics, Leonhart declared that while it "may seem contradictory, the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in the fight against drugs.”[11]

In 2012, Leonhart testified before Congress and refused to say that marijuana is less addictive or harmful than methamphetamine, heroin, or crack-cocaine.(1)

Her outright refusal to accept modern scientific evidence supporting the use of medical marijuana is ignorant and bigoted. By remaining blind to the value of medical marijuana she has caused insurmountable harm on medical marijuana patients, by using underhanded tactics such as targeting dispensaries with tactics "typically reserved for the worst drug traffickers and kingpins."(2)

She has wasted DEA assets disrupting the legitimate medical marijuana industry out of ignorant ideals and personal beliefs. These DEA assets should be put to use fighting a legitimate drug threat, not state sanctioned medical marijuana usage. She has allowed her personal beliefs and opinions to seize control of the DEA, and has used it towards her personal vendetta against medical marijuana. Enough is enough, she has failed to uphold the oath she took to our country as a law enforcement officer, she has failed to act responsibly as the Administrator of the DEA, and most of all she has failed the American people.

Sources:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Leonhart#Controversy

2. House Judiciary chairman John Conyers, taken from http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-20120216