Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee

The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee is a United States federal government interagency committee created during the first Trump Administration, which includes the Drug Enforcement Administration, and is coordinated by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).{{citation|title=Trump administration quietly fighting against marijuana support, legalization: Report|author=Andrew Blake |newspaper=The Washington Times|date=August 29, 2018|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/29/trump-administration-quietly-going-battle-against-/}} Some media have called it "secret anti-cannabis agency",{{citation|title=The Government's Secret Anti-Cannabis Agency Can't Be Real... Can It?|author=Josh Jardine|newspaper=The Stranger|location=Seattle|date=September 26, 2018|url=https://www.thestranger.com/weed/2018/09/26/32935155/the-governments-secret-anti-cannabis-agency-cant-be-real-can-it}} "a uniquely Trumpian government body ... launched in secret for reasons the administration won't explain",{{citation|title=The Trump Administration Has Secretly Launched an Anti-Weed Committee – but no one outside the administration seems to know what it's doing.|author=Harry Cheadle|work=Vice|date=August 29, 2018|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-trump-administration-has-secretly-launched-an-anti-weed-committee/}} and a "secretly amassed committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana".{{citation|title=Inside The Trump Administration's Secret War On Weed|first=Dominic |last=Holden |authorlink=Dominic Holden|publisher=BuzzFeed News|date=August 29, 2018|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-secret-committee-anti-marijuana}}

The committee's existence was "previously unknown" until it was described in an August, 2018 BuzzFeed News investigatory report by Dominic Holden.{{citation|title=The White House is looking for 'negative trends' on marijuana. We've got them.|work=Wonkblog|publisher=The Washington Post|author=Christopher Ingraham|date=August 30, 2018|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/30/white-house-is-looking-negative-trends-marijuana-weve-got-them/}} In a reaction to the journalism for The Hill, the national Drug Policy Alliance called it "mind-boggling, and underscores this Administration’s ineptitude on drug policy",{{citation|newspaper=The Hill|title=Trump tasked multi-agency committee with countering pro-marijuana message: report|author=Megan Keller|date=August 29, 2018|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/404187-trump-tasked-multi-agency-committee-with-countering-pro-marijuana}} and a California cannabis rights advocacy group called it an assembly of "department-wide prohibitionist cabals".{{citation|title=Trump Regime Reportedly Attempting to Undermine Legal Pot Reefer Madness-Style|date=August 29, 2018 |author=A.J. Herrington

|work=High Times|url=https://hightimes.com/news/trump-regime-reportedly-attempting-undermine-legal-pot-reefer-madness-style/}} Federal authorities in Denver contacted by local television news said they hadn't heard of the committee.{{citation|title=Report: White House Working To Portray Marijuana In Negative Light|date=August 31, 2018|publisher=KCNC-TV|location=Denver|url=https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/08/31/white-house-marijuana-policy-coordination-committee-report/}}

Political analysis by MassCentral.com said the ONDCP is "required by statute to 'take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize'" cannabis at the federal level, and would be "intent on getting Donald Trump to reconsider his support for letting states go their own way in this area", labeling the effort anti-federalism.{{citation|title=Anti-Pot Staffers Conspire to Turn Trump Against Marijuana Federalism|date=September 2, 2018|publisher=MassCentral.com|url=https://masscentral.com/anti-pot-staffers-conspire-to-turn-trump-against-marijuana-federalism/}}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}