Reason.com's Mike Rigg's has a incredible story about how a
former Merrill Lynch stockbroker named "James" destroyed his career
in finance all thanks to a single Oxycontin pill he never even took.
The story offers a remarkable example of how devastating and
silly the drug war is. Back in 2006, James, who was 24 and attending grad
school for his MBA while working full time at Merrill, was pulled over for
speeding after a concert in Florida.
During a search, police found a single Oxycontin pill in his
pocket and arrested him for illegal possession of the drug. James told Reason that a friend gave him
the pill for the show, but he decided against taking it. He also told Reason that he had never taken
Oxycontin in his entire life.
His attorney told him to plead no-contest explaining that he
would probably just get probation and then have his record expunged, James told
Reason. However, the fallout from having
that one pill was much worse than he ever anticipated….
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