Secret Memos of the DEA - What they say when no one is looking

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The DEA is the epitome of the drug war. They are its knights in shining armor. They are the guardians of the way, the enforcers, your psychic censors and friendly neighborhood snitches.

They recklessly sprayed cannabis with Paraquat in the 1980s, which ended up poisoning thousands of people in the United States, and of course there’s Colombia. Let’s not forget about that shit show.

Yet today we’re not here to talk about what they did in public. Rather, we’ll be taking a closer look at the administrative warfare they did on cannabis specifically. You see – for the DEA, cannabis is special for some reason. While every other illicit drug has multiple suppliers sanctioned by the DEA, cannabis has only one supplier – The University of Mississippi, who has been the sole supplier since 1973.

This 47-year-long chokehold on cannabis research forced scientists to conduct their experiments using a product that is comparable to hemp. Scientists have frequently complained that the cannabis supplied by the DEA were “a mishmash of seeds and stems”.

When taking an objective look at the organizational structure of the DEA on how it handles the nation’s federal cannabis program – and taking into consideration that there were federal medical marijuana patients reliant on the cannabis they produced, for a whole plethora of life-threatening illnesses; their monopolization and deliberate action to stifle any and all external cannabis research should be considered criminal negligence.

If this all seems very confusing and nonsensical – you’re not imagining things. It is very much complicated and utterly absurd to anyone looking at it through rational eyes. The only conclusion a sane person can have when objectively looking at the evidence is, “There’s got to be some sort of an agenda!”

I don’t know – my job is merely to point you in the right direction, to start asking the right kind of questions and to see who these “faceless people” really are.

THERE ONCE WAS A non-CRIME…

We’ll start from the beginning.

At some point in US history – cannabis became illegal for a plethora of reasons. For years – most of the cannabis enforcement was handled by the US Treasury Department. They had a special division called the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. In 1968 – this agency left the Treasury Department and joined the Food and Drug Administration’s Bureau of Drug Abuse Control to become the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, which was an agency run by the Department of Justice.

But this is where it gets “batty.”

All of this is happening in the 1970s – Nixon is president and the CIA suspects that The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs have been “infiltrated” and “In January 1971 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, Richard Helms, approved a program of "covert recruitment and security clearance support to BNDD", on request of the BNDD director, John Ingersoll. Ingersoll suspected widespread corruption among BNDD agents, and in December 1970 requested the CIA's assistance in rooting it out.” –Source

This apparently is confirmable history.

Anyhow – a few years after all of this the DEA is born and loosely set up the system they would follow vigorously for nearly fifty years.

Then came some patients

During the 1970s – you also had a man by the name of Robert Randall who were the first Federal Medical Marijuana Patient and eventually expanded a federal medical marijuana program with a handful of cannabis supplied by NIDA.

Wait….NIDA? Weren’t we talking about the DEA and the Federal cannabis program?

Yes - We are! But here’s where it all gets even whackier. You see – the DEA was allegedly following the protocols of an “international treaty” referring to the Single Convention of Narcotic Drugs of 1961 – which, happened to be our favorite racist prohibitionist “Harry J. Anslinger’s” international debut.

Within this treaty there are some protocols that the DEA apparently has been following – in where they would have to treat cannabis the same as they would “poppies”. They didn’t and we’re not going to dwell on it either because it’s in the “way past”.

What’s important is the “recent past” where Deputy Assistant Attorney General Henry Whitaker clarified what Jeff Sessions meant when he testified that the DEA was “moving forward” with their cannabis plans.

Here’s a snippet from a Reason Article on the subject matter;

Among other things, those rules require that "a single government agency" oversee cultivation and "take physical possession of such crops as soon as possible, but not later than four months after the end of the harvest." The Single Convention also requires that the agency "have the exclusive right of importing, exporting, wholesale trading and maintaining stocks other than those held by manufacturers" of medical products. Whitaker concludes that the longstanding DEA/NIDA arrangement with the University of Mississippi's marijuana growers does not meet those requirements.

First, the program involves more than one federal agency: While the DEA, a division of the Justice Department, licenses the University of Mississippi's marijuana growers, NIDA, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, oversees production. Second, the DEA never "take[s] physical possession" of the crops, which the National Center for Natural Products Research ships directly to scientists approved by NIDA. Third, the DEA does not have "exclusive right[s]" when it comes to "wholesale trading and maintaining stocks," which are handled by the center under NIDA's supervision. - SOURCE

According to deeper analysis – the DEA wasn’t even complying with the protocols within the agreement and thus have been mismanaging the medical cannabis research programs for decades – in some cases, at the cost of federal marijuana patients’ lives.

The question that we should be asking is;

If this was not the government – and some corporation mucking about like this with people’s lives – would we tolerate it? Why are we allowing an organization that has such a shoddy past to dictate what we can and cannot put into our bodies?

As I sit here – still not even scratching the surface of all this madness – I can only acknowledge that at times reality is far more bizarre than fiction could ever be.