The independent White House office headed by the nation’s “drug czar” reportedly is coordinating an anti-marijuana messaging effort to counter “one-sided” public debate about the drug.

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy convened a July 27 meeting of a group referred to as the Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, BuzzFeed reports, and afterward sought to centralize negative trend data.

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