Love it! Here’s looking at you, DEA! :nannah:

One of the U.S.’s foremost drug policy reform organizations is lending a tongue-in-cheek assist to the country’s top anti-drug enforcement agency.

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is taking out a mock "Help Wanted" ad to aid the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in finding a new leader in the wake of its administrator’s recently announced resignation.

Among the job responsibilities listed in the ad, which DPA is placing in Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call on Wednesday, are “Mass Incarceration,” “Police State Tactics,” “Obstruction of Science,” “Subverting Democracy” and “Undermining Human Rights.”

Current DEA administrator Michele Leonhart announced that she will leave the position this month following revelations that agency officials attended cartel-funded parties with sex workers in Colombia.

The DEA "is seeking a new chief to prolong the failed war on drugs," the ad says. "The ideal candidate should have at least 10 years’ experience turning a blind eye to scandal and corruption, be adept at undermining the Bill of Rights, and have a firm and unwavering commitment to the status quo."

It adds that new administrator "must be a self-starter, as this position comes with little congressional oversight."

The ad is part of a broader campaign to pressure President Obama to nominate a new DEA chief who will be more respectful and accommodating of shifting public attitudes and changing state laws, particularly when it comes to marijuana.

"We are drawing attention to the fact that the DEA is a wasteful, scandal-prone agency responsible for mass incarceration and racial disparities," Bill Piper, DPA’s director of national affairs, told Marijuana.com in an email. "The more they stand in the way of marijuana law reform the more we will come after them and their budget."

The cartel sex parties are just the latest in a string of scandals and actions that angered the drug policy reform community and some members of Congress, including collaborating with the NSA to spy on Americans, involvement in the massacring of civilians in Honduras and impeding legal industrial hemp cultivation. The agency has also repeatedly denied petitions to reschedule marijuana, overruling its own administrative law judges and ignoring scientific research showing that the drug has medical benefits.

Earlier this month, seven House Democrats wrote to President Obama urging him to use the appointment "as an opportunity to reshape the DEA’s direction" to better reflect his administration’s stated position of respecting state marijuana laws.

"The next DEA administrator must be willing to work with state and federal officials to set drug enforcement priorities that make sense within the evolving landscape of state marijuana laws," the lawmakers wrote.

Separately, DPA is asking supporters to send a message to the president and encourage him to "overhaul the DEA and appoint a new chief that will support drug policy reform."

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