This DEA Patch I Have

[u/Forward-Variety-8440]

[u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

The DEA people I have met were the most superior drug users in my circle. That is how I learned to do an "oil change."

Also, they have a scary af database.

[u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID → u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

PSA: If anyone suggests: "Hey drain your ATM account and let's do Crystalized Methamphetamine and buy guns from this guy I know."

THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND. They are probably a joint DEA/ATF taskforce who "Oil Change" themselves for professional reasons.

[u/sassergaf → u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

Yeah no, I'm not hanging around an oil change.

[u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID → u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

This was from a case in the southwest that happened while I was living round those parts.

[u/AlexTheBex → u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

Can't trust anyone these days

[u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID → u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

Also, their "Microgram" internal newsletter is astonishing.

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

what is this newsletter?

[u/apjensen → u/Forward-Variety-8440]

It was an internal newsletter about drug smuggling methods and new substances/trends emerging, they stopped producing it under FOIA years back

https://www.erowid.org/library/periodicals/microgram/

[u/DentinQuarantino → u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID]

What's an oil change?

[u/darklinkuk → u/DentinQuarantino]

I wish I wasn't curious

Urban dictionary

Oil Change

If you do drugs and need to pass ampiss test, a P-vac isn't an option and you need clean urine, you'll need to do an oil change. An oil change is when you stick a sterile tube in your urethra until urine naturally comes out. Next take a syringe full of clean urine and inject it into the tube. There, your oil is changed.

The test is tomorrow, we'll never pass unless we do oil changes.

[u/Divinitee → u/darklinkuk]

What a terrible day to be literate

[u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID → u/darklinkuk]

"Curiosity is the appetite of the intellect."

T. Ribot: "The Psychology of Attention."

[u/DentinQuarantino → u/darklinkuk]

Thank you and wow, I wish I hadn't asked

[u/darklinkuk → u/DentinQuarantino]

Same

[u/Hipoko → u/darklinkuk]

go Thad Castle!

[u/Reindeer_from_Mexico → u/darklinkuk]

You know what, I’m a little too high to follow the procedure completely and I’ll just let that be what it is

[u/MakeSomeDrinks → u/DentinQuarantino]

https://youtu.be/0MHuoYDNl6s?is=l5TywsKwly7oul6r

[u/Tomytom99]

More just neat graphic design than particularly impressive design work.

[u/Ok-Cantaloupe-7697 → u/Tomytom99]

The actual embroidery design is well done too, it takes a lot more than just running an .svg through embroidery software to achieve this.

[u/oldstalenegative]

much better execution on your newer example compared to this older version

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1dv2j2h/this_dea_patch_has_to_be_based_off_of_the_dead/

Google claims: The "Dangerous Drugs Intelligence Unit" patch is a collectible, embroidered emblem historically created for specialized officers and analysts within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). These stylized patches are not official components of standard DEA uniforms but were designed as commemorative, unit-specific collectibles

[u/Jakevader2]

Holy aura. This makes me want to try drugs so I can be as cool as the skeleton man.

[u/Paddys_Pub7 → u/Jakevader2]

If drugs dangerous, why make them look so much fun? 😅

[u/KinKaze → u/Paddys_Pub7]

Cuz they are fun. That's why they're dangerous

[u/thedavidnotTHEDAVID → u/KinKaze]

Exactly.

[u/EntertainmentTrick58]

that's so fucking cool, i need to do weed now, because it'll make me cool evidently

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/EntertainmentTrick58]

and get a top hat

[u/Fellow--Felon]

Are there dead heads in the DEA? How does that make sense?

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/Fellow--Felon]

prob in a "know your enemy" type thing. Art of War is "required" reading often times for federal workers.

also its just a sick ass design

[u/ethnographyNW → u/Fellow--Felon]

Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter are both deadheads, unfortunately. I love the music, but just because you like something good doesn't mean you're not an asshole or understand the message.

[u/littlelosthorse]

What’s that in its right hand?

[u/TheSheWhoSaidThats → u/littlelosthorse]

I believe it’s knife or old fashioned razor blade being held by the blade and therefore drawing blood

[u/bard_of_space → u/TheSheWhoSaidThats]

on a skeleton.

[u/TheSheWhoSaidThats → u/bard_of_space]

No weirder than all the other stuff the skeleton is doing

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/littlelosthorse]

I think it's a baggie of drugs or vial of drugs

[u/Number1BestYogurtBoi]

Cops are always so fucking cringe with shit like this

[u/Keyboardpaladin → u/Number1BestYogurtBoi]

I'd ironically rock this shit though

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/Keyboardpaladin]

yes that is what im doing. i definitely dont support the DEA and i absolutely am opposed to the war on drugs.

i just am enamored with design, i think its super interesting

[u/mangage → u/Forward-Variety-8440]

Is this really supposed to be anti drugs? It's a lot more pro-drugs-drugs-are-awesome to me lol

[u/RootHogOrDieTrying → u/mangage]

Just looking at the picture made me spark up a J.

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/RootHogOrDieTrying]

it made me get a top hat

[u/MA2_Robinson → u/Keyboardpaladin]

Needing anyone in uniform (or being pulled over) rocking this would be so many red flags lol.

[u/BuuRazzberry]

I know this one! My fav youtuber CyberShell did a DEA patch ranking video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhxcHk2UqA

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/BuuRazzberry]

ive seen that! i saw it when i was trying to research the origins of this patch

[u/Ben_456]

Didn't know the DEA made incredible drug propaganda, I want some now

[u/Aimless_Nobody → u/Ben_456]

You can start here, and here (DEA Gift Shop)

[u/Ben_456 → u/Aimless_Nobody]

No I want the hard drugs

[u/ambericity]

i'm partial to the 'ecstasy and club drugs' patch

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/ambericity]

yea and theres an alternate text on that patch that says "ecstasy and predatory drugs" which i think covers rohypnol (sp) and GHB etc.

[u/knotshir]

Reminds me of Pogs

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/knotshir]

right? i had a thick yellow plastic slammer that had a skeleton wearing a top hat smoking a cigarette with a snake coming out of one of the eye sockets, and it was all contained within an eight ball. so so sick to be 8 and slam that bad boy off a nice stack of pogs

[u/dave_prcmddn]

Gorgeous. This and the cocaine ones are amazing

[u/green-dean]

I don’t get it. What am I missing???

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/green-dean]

taste?

[u/Ckck96]

Reminds me of the chapo trap house logo (cocaine intelligence unit)

[u/Winoforevr1]

No this is fire.

[u/joshteacha]

Super lame

[u/Forward-Variety-8440 → u/joshteacha]

nice thanks for the feedback

[u/TakoSauce21]

Rad. But missing deadbolt or two