If we're going back to first principles, the DEA and all its antecedents back to the Bureau of Narcotics should never have been allowed to exist.
Even if they had been allowed to exist, the racist little demagogue, Anslinger, should have been run out of town on a rail and the craven congresscritters of 1937 should have listened to the AMA then when they were told they were power-mad, whoremongering idiots.
That every congress since has been too chicken**** to fix their screw up is precisely the situation that the very good tool of the ballot proposition was meant to correct.
I really don't care what he did and said back in 1937. You might as well try to start an argument about how slavery was wrong. Neither are relevant to today's laws.
Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970 which made marijuana illegal. The Act said nothing about Anslinger, white women or Negro jazz musicians. Give it a rest already.