Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy: Here’s An Agency You Might Want To Cut Back On And Save $40 Billion A Year
When the Drug Enforcement Administration marked its 50th anniversary last year, it had spent over $1 trillion partly to enforce Richard Nixon’s 1970 Controlled Substances Act, the cornerstone of his War on Drugs, which is widely viewed as a failure.
Now, doesn’t this sound like the type of government agency President-elect Donald Trump‘s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) might want to take a closer look at? The DOGE initiative, co-led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is meant to focus on dismantling bureaucracy, reducing regulations and cutting wasteful expenditures.
Both Musk and Ramaswamy have publicly acknowledged they are in favor of legalizing cannabis. In fact, so has Trump for that matter.
Meanwhile, the DEA, health officials and interested cannabis advocates are taking part in at times contentious