Reason's Hit & Run blog reports that the DEA thinks American Express Bank International hasn't done a good enough job of monitoring its customers for drug-money laundering activities, so the DEA is fining the bank (which means, ultimately, its customers) $55 million.
It's always good to remember that in order to make it marginally more difficult for Americans to get high, not only are you footing the $1.9 billion bill it costs the DEA to raid homes, pay snitches, arrest doctors, spray poison across Latin America, and storm medical marijuana clinics each year, you also pay your bank to spy on your financial transactions on behalf of the U.S. government.
