Congress’ Summer Fling With Marijuana
How Congress turned on the DEA and embraced weed.
By JAMES HIGDON
July 30, 2015
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It’s not easy being the DEA these days. After an unprecedented losing streak on Capitol Hill, the once-untouchable Drug Enforcement Administration suffered last week what might be considered the ultimate indignity: A Senate panel, for the first time, voted in favor of legal, recreational marijuana.