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.”
Feds are apparently volunteering for the role of keeping supplies down and prices up.
Supply Vs Demand....................
You’d think between the Rockets and the Texans that would be crumb cake.
Sell to states with lax pot laws. Use it for the wall. Only the government would burn so much money.
Well, Snoop Dogg is heading into the back end of his music career. Maybe he could branch out into government contracting?
Willie Nelson and his band have stepped up...
Dudes!...find a pyrolisis operation.
Turn the weed into diesel fuel.
Could be fun
KYPD
Calling all stoner jokes... step up now...
Heck, send it to the prisons - it’ll be gone in the first hour.
Why not find a electric utility company and throw it in with the coal?
Why don’t they just compost it. A couple of days and it will be unusable. Just try and save some money for a change.
A burn of that size and intensity and duration would likely affect the health of any residents in the area. This is insanity. Why can’t the feds just bury it using a few back hoes or take it out on a barge to dump at sea? It’s not like the feds don’t have ocean-going vessels available to it.
I was wondering the same. Why not compost instead of creating ‘biochar?’
I can’t find it on youtube but I remember an old audio routine on a Cheech and Chong comedy album where an army officer in Vietnam asks his radio guy to get in touch “with that company we sent out to burn the marijuana field” and when radio contact is made the soldiers in the field try to order pizza over the radio.
What’s Snoop Dogg or Willy Nelson doing these days?
I’ll have to do a lot of hiring! Maybe have a job fair or something like that.
“Able Baker Charlie to Roger Fox Dogs!”....................
I’ve seen some college dorms that could do that.
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