The DEA’s War on Progress: How an Agency Designed to Fail Keeps Cannabis from Patients
October 17, 2025

The Drug Enforcement Administration has consistently proven itself to be the greatest roadblock to cannabis reform in America. Despite overwhelming public support for medical cannabis, despite 38 states having legalized it in some form, and despite bipartisan congressional pressure, the DEA continues its decades-long pattern of stonewalling, delaying, and obstructing any meaningful progress.