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DEA looking for contractor to burn 1,000 pounds of marijuana per hour
wreg.com ^ | Updated at 04:03PM, March 28, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 04/01/2019 6:54:48 AM PDT by Red Badger

HOUSTON, Texas — The Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston is looking for a contractor to burn 1,000 pounds of marijuana per hour through September.

The DEA’s posting says the contractor would need to have enough space and resources to burn the marijuana for eight consecutive hours per day. The burns are needed to reduce unneeded evidence from the DEA’s inventory.

The incinerator must burn 1,000 pounds of marijuana per hour, which would be delivered in “bales” or “bricks,” each weighing up to 200 pounds.

DEA agents would accompany the contractor during the burns, and all employees would receive drug tests and background checks. The DEA also requires that the contractor have surveillance cameras over the entire burn area, and DEA agents would access that closed-circuit video.

The posting also requires that the facility have a surrounding fence tall enough to block public view of the burning. The job would take place from March to September.

The DEA sent the following statement to KHOU about the position.

“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 safe and effective destruction of these drugs is just part of the job.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: dea; dude; incunerator; marijuana; potheads; warondrugs
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To: Leep
Wasn’t taxing weed the answer to all our financial woes?

Yes that was what we were told. A bonus for the tax payments not so much for the residents.

Vagrants Overrun Colorado Town, Residents Cite Legalized Marijuana as the Reason.

https://freebeacon.com/issues/vagrants-overrun-colorado-town-legalized-marijuana/

41 posted on 04/01/2019 7:45:43 AM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: Red Badger

Oh wow man!


42 posted on 04/01/2019 7:47:13 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world has been crucified to me.)
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To: 9YearLurker

I read it as legal and TAXED weed has great potential to prop-up the budgets of the profligate states. So Washington is going to lend them a hand.


43 posted on 04/01/2019 7:48:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Leep

Willie Nelson and Snoop Doggy Dog smoked pot? who knew? I’m so shocked.


44 posted on 04/01/2019 7:51:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger

There’s a trash-to-energy co-generation plant in West Tulsa that could probably do this. I know for a fact they’ve done evidence burns of other drugs for the state narcotics enforcement agency. The energy produced is steam that is piped directly across the street to the refinery. The heat in the burn process is extremely high and very little residual is produced. I think this company has a facility in the Houston area that will probably be a bidder.


45 posted on 04/01/2019 7:52:49 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: BushCountry

Kalifornia has a 6 year supply of legal pot already.


46 posted on 04/01/2019 7:53:48 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Red Badger
Yep, I must have listened to that 8-track a million times!.................

Which album was that? I had a copy of Big Bambu years ago, on cassette, but I no longer have a cassette player.

Good morning class. Good Morning Class! Class!!... SHUUUT UUUUPP! Thank you.

47 posted on 04/01/2019 7:54:07 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: akalinin
I agree, find a coal fired power plant and load it in. Not sure about the ash content of weed. but it has to be less than coal. And why the drug testing? who cares the workers are burning a few bales of weed. its not DOT controlled.

awe hell , only the governmwnt could screw up a bon fire.

48 posted on 04/01/2019 7:54:37 AM PDT by Ikeon (The first step in getting out of a hole is to throw away the shovel, and.. never touch it again!!)
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To: petro45acp

Rolling coal will now make you high?


49 posted on 04/01/2019 7:54:55 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Red Badger

Why pay a contractor sell it to California the weed wine and cheese stoners could burn it up in half the time.


50 posted on 04/01/2019 7:57:38 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: T-Bird45

A former Florida county sheriff where I used to live, and his Chief Deputy were arrested and prosecuted for drug trafficking.

They had the then only evidence incinerator within a hundred mikes, so every county sent their drugs, weed, etc., to them for destruction.

They would destroy a little of it for the papers and TV and then sell the rest to street dealers....................


51 posted on 04/01/2019 7:58:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Ikeon
Today is 4/1.. you got us all !! 😂��😂😂😂
52 posted on 04/01/2019 8:00:38 AM PDT by Ikeon (The first step in getting out of a hole is to throw away the shovel, and.. never touch it again!!)
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To: Red Badger

We should sell the weed to Canada. Build some more wall.


53 posted on 04/01/2019 8:03:23 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after rain had started falling.)
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To: IamConservative

We should build the wall with the weed.

It would stop everybody and they would forget what they were doing................


54 posted on 04/01/2019 8:06:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: IYAS9YAS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheech_and_Chong_(album)


55 posted on 04/01/2019 8:08:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: rhombus10

“Calling all stoner jokes... step up now...”

OK, here goes: a drunk driver will blow past a stop sign; a stoned driver will wait for it to turn green.

Ba-doom-TISH!


56 posted on 04/01/2019 8:14:05 AM PDT by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Red Badger

Any inner city high school can do it on the cheap as a student project.


57 posted on 04/01/2019 8:18:29 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Red Badger
Should work in a coal fired power plant.

Then we could call it "renewable energy".

58 posted on 04/01/2019 8:24:00 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Red Badger

Pagin’ Mr. Cheech and Mr. Chong! Please Pagin’ Mr. Cheech and Mr. Chong! Please pick up the courtesy phone.


59 posted on 04/01/2019 8:29:31 AM PDT by pikachu (After Monday and Tuesday, even the calender goes W T F !)
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To: mad_as_he$$

“Rolling coal will now make you high?”

OOPS!.. I should have said thermal depolymerization. The output there is completely not the feed stock. Regular pyrolysis would in fact be the rolling dirty!

Cheers

KYPD


60 posted on 04/01/2019 8:35:28 AM PDT by petro45acp (Who is John Gantt? MBA nonsense that causes any efficient endeavour to bloat with "dependencies")
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