The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) allowed drug makers to increase production of opioids even as overdose deaths were skyrocketing, according to a report released September 30th by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General.

While opioid overdose deaths grew by 71% per year between 2013 and 2017, the DEA authorized manufacturers to produce “substantially larger amounts of opioids.”  (www.thehill.com)

Also: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill recently authorizing banks and financial institutions to provide basic banking services to marijuana businesses in states were marijuana has been legalized.  The bill is entitled “The SAFE Banking Act” and it passed by a vote of 321 to 103.

This bill was passed, even though growing marijuana, selling marijuana, and using marijuana is a violation of federal law. 

More and more people are exhibiting “abnormal” behavior and committing random acts of violence against innocent people, and even against themselves.  Mentally unstable people are living on the streets and in the public parks of our larger cities. 

Our political leaders tell us we have a mental health crisis, and most admit that “drug abuse” is one of the major causes. 

And yet, they pass legislation to help finance the drug trade, lighten drug possession penalties, push for open borders, and try to tie the hands of drug enforcement officers … and look the other way while the DEA approves opioid production increases.

Follow the money trail … it surely must lead straight to the political swamp in Washington, D.C.