DEA Employees Fail Drug Tests, Shockingly Face No Serious Consequences

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dea-drug-tests_560abff4e4b0af3706de0211

A number of federal employees with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have failed drug tests over the past five years, only to receive short suspensions or other minor reprimands, newly released documents reveal.

According to a Huffington Post review of internal DEA discipline logs, first uncovered by USA Today over the weekend, there have been at least 16 reported instances of employees failing random drug tests since 2010. While a number of these incidents were handled administratively, with a few people choosing to resign or retire amid the proceedings, none of the cases ended in an employee's outright firing. The agency punished most employees with short suspensions, sometimes as little as one or two days.

The DEA's drug policy states that applicants who "experimented with or used narcotics or dangerous drugs, except those medically prescribed for you, will not be considered for employment," though it makes exceptions for "limited youthful and experimental use of marijuana." The agency conducts random drug testing throughout an employee's career....

USA Today reporters Brad Heath and Meghan Hoyer found that, from 2010 through 2015, DEA employees have avoided getting fired despite serious violations of agency policy, including distribution of drugs, falsifying official records and having an “improper association with a criminal element.” And in the few cases in which administrators did recommend termination, the DEA's Board of Professional Conduct often reduced sanctions to suspensions or lower forms of discipline and even required the agency to rehire problem employees.

Well, you know what they say: cops have the best dope!

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Par for the course for that thuggish agency with no accountability. It should be abolished.

[ryan_cats]

2. They operate at a higher level

They operate at a higher level than the rest of us trying to stop the scourge of drugs.

If someone fails the test at Walmart, then they should be barred from working there.

At least the drug tests are fair. People who smoke the demon weed can take over 30 days before they can pass a test while good drugs like meth, crack and morphine can be gone in 4.

One of the best things out of Jane Wyman's just say no campaign.

[KamaAina]

3. Jane Wyman was St. Raygun's first wife

the Just Say No campaign came from his second wife, Nancy Reagan, nee Davis. (Yes indeedy, Mr. Family Values got a divorce. )

[ryan_cats]

4. Who am I to argue with Doc Brown? n/t.