THE “DUMB cops" IMAGE One day this past fall we Were going through the daily Washington ritual of reviewing the current issue of the Federal Register—which is the principal means of keeping track of what is happening in the executive branch of government—when we spotted reference to a Presidential Proclamation which caught our eye.
In recent months, we have seen repeated instances where official notices, proposals, or finalized regulations issuing from DEA and published in the Federal Register have used terminology and nomenclature to describe the drugs involved which have been confusing, inconsistent, or otherwise inaccurate.
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