Editing Drug Enforcement Administration (section)

===Domestic anti-drug advocacy===
The DEA, in addition to enforcement, also regularly engage in advocacy, specifically against rescheduling marijuana, by publishing policy-based papers on certain drugs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement of the Drug Enforcement Administration before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce-Subcommittee on Health for a Hearing Entitled: Cannabis Policy-For The New Decade |url=https://www.dea.gov/documents/2020/2020-01/2020-01-15/statement-drug-enforcement-administration-house-committee-energy |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250404015644/https://www.dea.gov/documents/2020/2020-01/2020-01-15/statement-drug-enforcement-administration-house-committee-energy |archive-date=2025-04-04 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=DEA |language=en}}</ref> Figures such as Ifetayo Harvey, founder and executive of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective,<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.ifetayo.me/about |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=Ifetayo Harvey |language=en-US}}</ref> have criticized the DEA for using tax dollars in what they call an attempt to change public opinion, a practice they call an overreach from the scope of the agency's job of enforcement. They claim that the DEA releasing such non-peer-reviewed reports is a transparent attempt to justify its own activities<ref name=":0" /> and that since it is not by law an advocacy group but rather a legal enforcement group, those press releases are tantamount to what they consider domestic propaganda.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ifetayo |first=Harvey |date=2024 |title=Time to Abolish the DEA: Evaluating the Agency’s Failures and&nbsp;Calling for Community Investments |url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6113&context=flr |journal=[[Fordham Law Review]] |publication-date=2024 |volume=93 |issue=2 |page=429 |access-date=20 May 2025 |via=The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History}}</ref>{{Nbsp}}