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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Drug Policy
Drug Policy
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Border patrol officers pull barbed wires as immigrants wait at the United States border on March 20, 2024, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Prescription drugs are pictured in Washington, DC, on December 26, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Cannabis plants are seen at East End Flower Farm in Mattituck, New York, on November 16, 2023. (Cecilia Sanchez/AFP via Getty Images)
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Demonstrators sit during a moment of silence at a rally against fentanyl near the White House in Washington, DC, on September 17, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Fentanyl pills at the Mexican attorney general’s office in Tijuana, Mexico, on July 28, 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Pill bottles in a raided fentanyl lab in Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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One of the largest outdoor legal marijuana grow operations in Santa Barbara County is in full view from heavily traveled Highway 246 on August 23, 2022, just outside Buellton, California. (George Rose via Getty Images)
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United States President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about countering the flow of fentanyl into the United States in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 21, 2023, Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
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A bag of evidence containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl disguised as Oxycodone is shown during a 2020 news conference at the Fresno County Sheriff Office in Fresno, California. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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A court restraining order closes a smoke shop for selling cannabis illegally in New York City. (Deb Cohn-Orbach via Getty Images)
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