The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is recruiting contractors to burn large volumes of evidence, which includes drugs, and lots of them. One of the requirements that the DEA has reportedly listed is the ability for the contractor to burn at least 1,000 pounds of marijuana per hour and for a minimum of eight consecutive hours per day.In addition to cannabis, the contractor will also need to be required to burn papers, cassette tapes, and pharmaceuticals.
The DEA seems to be careful about who they are handing this job over to, as they are requiring extensive background checks and drug tests. The DEA has also reserved the right to video record the contractor at all times to make sure they aren’t taking any of the evidence for themselves. The DEA also said that they will provide their own armed guards to keep the contraband safe until the burn.This will be a temporary job that will run until the end of September and will be located in Texas—reportedly somewhere near Houston.After the story of the open contract hit the news, the DEA made the following statement and distributed it to the media:
“Although we appreciate local citizens’ willingness to offer their help, this is a complicated, large-scale government contract we’re required by law to bid every few years, and there are usually only a handful of companies with the necessary facilities and resources to help us dispose of this material. While it makes for an interesting headline, the truth is far more prosaic – our agents working across the Houston Division make a huge number of great cases, and as a result, we seize a tremendous amount of illegal drugs. Arranging for the save and effective destruction of these drugs is just part of the job”
It makes sense that the DEA would need to hire someone to incinerate evidence, but it seems a bit ridiculous that they would need to burn such large amounts of cannabis. The fact that they are requiring a contractor to burn 1,000 pounds of cannabis per hour, must mean that they are still confiscating at least that amount. As states across the country are choosing to legalize cannabis, the war on weed is still alive and well.
According to the Drug Policy Alliance, 659,700 people were arrested for cannabis in the US in 2017, the most recent year that records are available. 599,282 of those arrests were for simple possession, that’s 90.8%. Last year, Forbes reported that cannabis arrests are actually increasing despite legalization coming in various forms to over half of the country.Every 19 seconds there is a drug bust in the United States.
I don't think it would be too difficult to be find volunteers ...
I know a guy, @davedickeyyall he'll burn that in an hour all right ;)
LMAO!!! Yeah the DEA should just hire Dave.
I wonder if these "people" have ever heard of mulching or composting?
But papers and cassette tapes... they will have to do something else with.
You ever get the feeling the DEA isn't doing what they say they are doing?
#legalizeit
No, decriminalize it. There's no need for any law. ;-)
Dude, you don't want any of that Mexican swag, they are doing a public service.
This makes no sense right here. Here we are trying to test it out to see what it does and the DEA... the fucking DEA.. wants to burn 1,000 lbs a hr. LOL. Actions always speak louder they don't fucking care unless its money involved. They could sell 1000 lbs an hr and buy buildings to help facilitate these procedures. Hell, you can even just pay 659,700 (the amount of people they arrested) people to smoke 1,000 lbs in a hr lol. WTF man give me that weed
Weed is bad, bring me all your weed so I can burn it.
Seems they live by the same mantra. I bet they would sell it though, many agencies sell what was confiscated but we would first need it rescheduled for that to be possible. Love it or hate it but they work only in the legal framework they have.
Now gimme dat weed, I’ll take care of it for the DEA. :D
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This is a crime!
My spouse goes to college with a woman who's husband is in jail for a very long time simply for selling pot. It ruined that family's life. Now their children grow up without the father around. The mother is working her butt off to provide for them though. All that over a stupid plant?
It makes me very angry, and we need to stop this madness.