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If the DEA feels it needs all this to find more opiate addicts, they could save time & money by walking the streets of San Francisco instead.

The privacy implications are horrifying.

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States have these registries in place already. This is just the next step.

edit-to-add: but the state registries are not de-identified.

The drug war is collapsing. There's going to be a crunch on social security and medicare soon as more boomers retire, so the budget vultures will be circling. The DEA will search frantically for a reason to exist, something they can bring to congress to justify their funding.

I’d throw a party when they are dissolved. Horrible abuses of our civil rights in the name of protecting us from drugs (something they have unequivocally failed to succeed at).

After the recent ballots in many states decriminalizing various drugs, I saw a number of memes congratulating "drugs" on "winning the war on drugs".

I saw a joke on that the other day:

After hearing about Oregon's recent de-criminalization of hard drugs, a bunch of druggies were celebrating by doing cocaine in a public park. An officer walks up to them and says, "Is that a plastic straw?"

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