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DEA Agent Leaves For Marijuana Industry
Posted on 1/26/14 at 8:08 am
Posted on 1/26/14 at 8:08 am
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Former DEA Agent Patrick Moen — whose career with the Drug Enforcement Administration went up in smoke when he joined the lucrative legal marijuana industry — isn't likely to spark an exodus from the agency, former colleagues say.
Moen, 36, quit his post in Portland late last year and is now working for Seattle-based Privateer Holdings, a private equity firm specializing in acquiring businesses in the burgeoning marijuana industry. The attorney who once spent long days dismantling drug rings throughout the Pacific Northwest will now help the company with state and federal compliance issues.
“I think he doesn’t represent the hard work of every other agent and the DEA,” DEA spokeswoman Dawn Dearden told FoxNews.com on Tuesday. Dearden declined further comment, but Moen’s former boss said he considers the move to be a source of frustration.
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Schmidt, who testified as a federal drug agent in marijuana cases throughout the region, including Washington, Colorado and Wyoming, said he saw marijuana as the “least of the evils” among other drugs like heroin, meth and cocaine. Many younger officers feel the same way, he told the newspaper.
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Moen said he realized over time that targeting marijuana was not an effective use of federal resources.
“There was no ‘aha’ moment,” he told the newspaper. “ … I had been contemplating career moves, looking for new challenges. It was partly a reflection of the general dysfunction of the federal government. Gridlock in D.C. has trickled down to affect every employee. It hurts morale. I’ll leave it at that.”
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This story reminds me of the Blackwater CEO who is now working for the Chinese seeing up their private armies in Africa
This post was edited on 1/26/14 at 8:10 am
Posted on 1/26/14 at 8:15 am to Strannix
How does someone cope with the cognitive dissonance of knowing people are sitting in prison because of what you have believed and enforced....only to accept that what they were doing isn't a crime and now you make your living doing that?
Posted on 1/26/14 at 8:19 am to Upperaltiger06
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How does someone cope with the cognitive dissonance of knowing people are sitting in prison because of what you have believed and enforced....only to accept that what they were doing isn't a crime and now you make your living doing that?
Reminds me of the end of The Untouchables. He spent all that time fighting, putting his family at risk, losing men, and at the end, when ask what he's going to do after prohibition was repealed, he said "I'm going to get a drink." It was just a movie, but I was seriously pissed off. Never mind if something is right or wrong. I'm just going to blindly enforce the whims of degenerates who call themselves lawmakers.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 9:03 am to Patrick O Rly
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I'm just going to blindly enforce the whims of degenerates who call themselves lawmakers.
And instead cater to the whims of degenerates who willingly break the law?
In this whimsical ethical nirvana of yours, how do you determine which degenerate laws to obey? Any? None?
Posted on 1/26/14 at 9:05 am to Gray Tiger
Who creates black markets for them to violently control?
Posted on 1/26/14 at 9:17 am to Gray Tiger
America's policy of criminalizing vices has not only failed in preventing people from practicing them, it has also caused needless violence, and artificially inflated the market, enriching the violent people that control it.
Our drug policies protects the business interest of the drug cartels.
Our drug policies protects the business interest of the drug cartels.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 9:26 am to Patrick O Rly
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Our drug policies protects the business interest of the drug cartels.
A huge problem I see on the horizon post legalization is the problem with the cartels, what will they fill their huge market void with, they aren't just gonna turn in their guns and go home.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 9:30 am to Strannix
They'd still be producers, and there would still be buyers. The market would deflate, but they wouldn't have to spend nearly as much money on security, and they wouldn't have to worry about smuggling cost.
Beyond that, I'm not sure, but that uncertainty shouldn't be a reason to continue failed policy.
Beyond that, I'm not sure, but that uncertainty shouldn't be a reason to continue failed policy.
Posted on 1/26/14 at 9:33 am to Patrick O Rly
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that uncertainty shouldn't be a reason to continue failed policy.
Oh I agree completely, I would say our failed polices were the genesis of the cartels anyway.
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