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<p>Mike Riggs <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/08/3-accounting-tricks-the-government-uses">exposes</a> them:</p>
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<p>Since its inception, the Drug Enforcement Administration&#39;s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program has spent roughly $200 million eradicating &quot;ditchweed,&quot; or feral marijuana plants that contain no THC (the chemical in marijuana that gets you high). Even though feral marijuana can&#39;t give you a buzz, for years the DEA used it to hype the specter of domestic pot production and pad out its annual DCE/SP report. How much padding, exactly? Roughly 98 percent of the marijuana the DEA destroys in a given year is worthless as a drug (though not as industrial hemp, outlawed since the 1930s).</p>
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