This has been a crazy week. On Tuesday I returned home to find a notice that the Post Office had been unable to deliver a certified letter and was holding it at the Post Office. On Wednesday, I decided I had waited long enough and it was time to complain about the DEA failing to respond to my federal petition to have marijuana removed from schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act. I wrote letters to U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, and U.S. Congressman Leonard Boswell complaining about the DEA's failure to respond. On Thursday, I retrieved the ceritifed letter and it was a letter from the DEA accepting my petition for filing.
So, today, I wrote letters complaining that Congress should demand that the DEA remove marijuana from schedule 1 instead of making me do it. After all, I'm just a citizen. Why should I have to bear the burden of enforcing federal drug law when the administrative agency charged by Congress to enforce federal drug law is flagrantly violating that law? Oh well, at least someone is minding the store. I wrote letters to U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, and U.S. Congressman Leonard Boswell, telling them to muzzle their dogs and attaching a copy of my legal memorandum.