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Heroin and meth are the drugs that are ravaging our country. and every death, including mr. hoffman, is partly the responsibility of the federal government's drug priorities. >> mark, react to that. >> well, yes, it's true. cannabis is less dangerous than most of the other control drugs. i would have added to that list cocaine and prescription opiates. it's the prescription opiates that are now the rising problem. and yes, there's a competition. we could do more drug enforcement against other drugs. if we did less against cannabis. cannabis takes a very large share of drug enforcement, perhaps...