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Ogla



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DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm
#19316062 - 12/23/13 01:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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December 22, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Portland DEA agent has left his position to join a Seattle firm that invests in the marijuana industry, joining a small but emerging industry that projects to keep growing with legal pot in Colorado and Washington state.
Ten-year DEA veteran Patrick Moen made the jump to Privateer Holdings last month, The Oregonian reported ( http://bit.ly/1cJqs4h).
The 36-year-old lawyer spent his career busting up trafficking rings for drugs like meth and ecstasy. And he acknowledges that some of his former DEA colleagues are less than enthusiastic about his career choice.
But Moen says the opportunity was too good to pass on.
"It wasn't an easy decision," said Moen, who is in the process of relocating from Portland to Seattle. "It's not one I took lightly. I talked with friends, family and coworkers. I sought out opinions. When it comes down to it, this is an incredible opportunity for me professionally and personally."
He will assist the firm with state and federal compliance issues.
Moen also says the medical marijuana system in Oregon needs a "complete overhaul" to prevent abuse.
Moen is the second DEA agent with Oregon ties to make the move to the marijuana industry. Paul Schmidt, who until 2010 served as the highest-ranking DEA agent in Oregon, now works as a medical marijuana business consultant.
Schmidt, 54, acknowledged that some former colleagues consider advising the medical marijuana industry a move to the "dark side."
"A lot of people say, `How could you be so against it Monday and then on Tuesday you are all for it?" said Schmidt, who worked in law enforcement for more than three decades and lives in Canby.
Schmidt has long been interested in the drug's botanical background and its medicinal potential, he said. And though as a federal drug agent, he testified in marijuana cases in Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Wyoming, he said he viewed the drug as less harmful than heroin, meth and cocaine.
"It was the least of the evils," he said.
Many officers, particularly younger ones, agree with him, he said.
"If you go to the newer law enforcement, somewhere 45 years and younger, and you talk to them about cannabis, they are just like, `Man, why isn't it legal? I have got other things to do.'"
http://mynorthwest.com/174/2420173/DEA-agent-leaves-job-for-marijuana-investment-firm
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theonlysun81
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: Ogla]
#19316206 - 12/23/13 01:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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To be honest, with that on his resume, probably was a no brainer to hire him
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: Ogla]
#19316499 - 12/23/13 02:36 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Profiteer and turncoat.
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: Repertoire89]
#19317099 - 12/23/13 04:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Turned to the dark side
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: ChinChiller]
#19317109 - 12/23/13 04:53 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Errolscool said: Turned to the dark side
Turned from the tyrannical violent draconian socialist side - to make money using knowledge gained from ruining lives for a decade.
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: ChinChiller]
#19317472 - 12/23/13 05:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Errolscool said: Turned to the dark side
More like a turn to the green side!
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: travelleler]
#19321082 - 12/24/13 12:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Rock on! This is like a Sith Lord becoming a Jedi!!!!! Well played Mr. Moen, well played indeed sir!
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: ChinChiller]
#19322279 - 12/24/13 05:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Errolscool said: Turned to the dark dank side
FTFY
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: SuperD]
#19323757 - 12/24/13 11:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Why would a marijuana firm hire a DEA agent? They should say "The moment you swore in as a DEA officer you proved you were incapable of logic and respecting your fellow human being, now kindly go drink yourself to ruin like the hypocrite you are".
Edited by Ritual (12/24/13 11:31 PM)
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: Ritual]
#19324138 - 12/25/13 02:02 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ritual said: Why would a marijuana firm hire a DEA agent? They should say "The moment you swore in as a DEA officer you proved you were incapable of logic and respecting your fellow human being, now kindly go drink yourself to ruin like the hypocrite you are".
No, everyone should bring as many DEA agents turned good on board. That way we all know their nefarious police state facist tactics and we can crush them with the good ol' fucking MARIJUANA, which will ultimately prevail over all the true shitbirds of the century that oppressed the miraculous plant that should be worshiped and adored in peace and saftey all over the world by my kids their kids and the kids after that!
LONG LIVE THE GANJA JAH THE ALMIGHTY HAS SO GRACIOUSLY BLESSED US WITH!!!
 
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: ChinChiller]
#19325378 - 12/25/13 12:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Younger generations continue to view pot as more and more harmless. 20 years from now it will be legal on a federal level, as it should be.
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Re: DEA agent quits job and joins marijuana firm [Re: ChinChiller]
#19325797 - 12/25/13 02:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Errolscool said:
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Ritual said: Why would a marijuana firm hire a DEA agent? They should say "The moment you swore in as a DEA officer you proved you were incapable of logic and respecting your fellow human being, now kindly go drink yourself to ruin like the hypocrite you are".
No, everyone should bring as many DEA agents turned good on board. That way we all know their nefarious police state facist tactics and we can crush them with the good ol' fucking MARIJUANA, which will ultimately prevail over all the true shitbirds of the century that oppressed the miraculous plant that should be worshiped and adored in peace and saftey all over the world by my kids their kids and the kids after that!
LONG LIVE THE GANJA JAH THE ALMIGHTY HAS SO GRACIOUSLY BLESSED US WITH!!!
  
sadly much more likely once a few dea formers are on board feds will raid the fuck out of everyone else and continue to run the game
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