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DEA SLAMMED OVER POST COMMEMORATING NIXON’S DRUG WAR LEGACY ON FIRST DAY OF
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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Kyle Jaeger
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is facing criticism over its decision
to commemorate President Richard Nixon’s drug war legacy in a social media post
that coincided with the beginning of Black History Month.
DEA’s Throwback Thursday (or TBT) post on X featured a picture of Nixon
receiving a “certificate of special honor” from the International Narcotic
Enforcement Officers’ Association in December 1970 “in recognition of the
outstanding loyalty and contribution to support narcotic law enforcement.”
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Advocates blasted the homage as tone-deaf, memorializing a president whose own
domestic policy advisor would later disclose that his boss promoted punitive
drug laws in large part to target his political “enemies,” namely “the anti-war
left and Black people.”
DEA didn’t necessarily endorse or provide commentary beyond sharing the moment
in history—but the TBT post quickly incited criticism given the timing in
connection to Black History Month.
It was also about six months after the photo of Nixon was taken that he’d
infamously declare a war on drugs, fueling a mass incarceration movement that
would have racially disparate impacts lasting generations into the modern day.
As the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) pointed out, 1970 also marked the year that
Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), codifying broad drug
criminalization in a way that has long empowered DEA and is actively being
reviewed by the agency as it weighs a marijuana rescheduling recommendation from
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“This is the agency that we are supposed to trust to objectively decide cannabis
final schedule?” Kaliko Castille, who recently ended his tenure as president of
the Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA), said. “Posting drug war
propaganda to kick off the first day of Black History Month?”
Cat Packer, director of drug markets and legal regulation at DPA, shared the
sentiment.
“On the first day of Black History Month 2024 the Biden Administration’s DEA is
celebrating President Nixon—this is the same agency responsible for marijuana
scheduling,” she said.
Here’s how others reacted to DEA’s Nixon post:
The unpopularity of the drug war and DEA’s role in that crusade hasn’t stopped
the agency from celebrating its history.
Last year, for example, it touted its 50-year anniversary, marking a half
century of enforcing criminalization laws that have failed to fulfill the
mission to eradicate drugs at the same time that nearly half of the country has
legalized marijuana and psychedelics reform is also booming.
DEA’s own museum is rife with subtle acknowledgements that the agency has failed
to win the drug war. In 2022, the museum even publicly recognized the fact that
racially discriminatory drug laws are partly responsible for the agency’s own
founding.
In any case, the agency is now actively completing a review into cannabis
scheduling that could either depart from, or reinforce, its reputation with the
public that’s invited criticism. While HHS has advised DEA to move marijuana
from Schedule I to Schedule III of the CSA, the law enforcement agency has
emphasized that it reserves “final authority” in the matter, so it remains to be
seen.
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