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Article: SPECIAL AGENT NEW ENGLAND'S NEWEST WEAPON IN THE WAR ON DRUGS IS JUNE STANSBURY, THE ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO HEAD UP A DEA FIELD DIVISION. THE POT-SMOKING CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES IS OFFICIALLY ON NOTICE.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2005
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June Stansbury, the head of the US Drug Enforcement
Administration's New England field division, had barely been on the
job two months when a federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration study came out. Turns out Boston has more
marijuana smokers than anywhere else in the country, with 12 percent
of youths and adults polled admitting use, according to the report
released in June.
"Isn't that awful?" Stansbury, 47, says. "And I'd just gotten
here, too." She shakes her head. "I don't know if it's because of the
number of colleges here. I'd like to think so, and that it's not the
grown-ups" - she makes quotation marks with her fingers - "who are
using."
As special agent in ...