![(“The Narc Who Got High” via boing boing)
Thank you officer Richard Mack — there will be more and more like you as this culture slowly (and painfully) starts to wake up to the realities of this issue. [ed.]
TRANSCRIPT:
Richard Mack worked in law enforcement for 20 years. In 1982 he served as an undercover narcotics officer. As a Mormon he hated the drug culture he entered but he learned, “that most of these [users] were basically good. For the most part I liked them, at least one of them. Ted is still a personal friend today.”
Mack often feigned smoking pot, but sometimes he had to inhale to avoid suspicion and, “I actually felt the effect of the marijuana high and I found myself wondering what in the heck the big deal was.”
Mack will never support using drugs, but “when the alternative is forcing American citizens at the point of a gun to not possess pot and threatening users with jail…I no longer can condone such tyranny.”](http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/02/Narc%20Who%20Got%20High%20WEB2%201009.jpg)
(“The Narc Who Got High” via boing boing)
Thank you officer Richard Mack — there will be more and more like you as this culture slowly (and painfully) starts to wake up to the realities of this issue. [ed.]
TRANSCRIPT:
Richard Mack worked in law enforcement for 20 years. In 1982 he served as an undercover narcotics officer. As a Mormon he hated the drug culture he entered but he learned, “that most of these [users] were basically good. For the most part I liked them, at least one of them. Ted is still a personal friend today.”
Mack often feigned smoking pot, but sometimes he had to inhale to avoid suspicion and, “I actually felt the effect of the marijuana high and I found myself wondering what in the heck the big deal was.”
Mack will never support using drugs, but “when the alternative is forcing American citizens at the point of a gun to not possess pot and threatening users with jail…I no longer can condone such tyranny.”