Lex Anteinternet: Drug Enforcement Agency

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Seriously, blaming Canada?

What the crap?

How the DEA views it:

Doesn't seem like Canada is the problem. . . .

But then who pays attention to the facts anymore?

Saturday, July 1, 2023

Sunday, July 1, 1973. Birth of the DEA, Sealing Indochina's fate.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was created to enforce the Controlled Substances Act, which had come into existance in 1971. The new entity was a merger of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement.

President Nixon signed the Case–Church Amendment, which prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia without prior Congressional approval.

Lex Anteinternet?

This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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