“The court should not allow this defendant to profit from the illegal delivery of controlled substances,”insisted Malheur County Deputy DA Mike Dugan as he demanded the imprisonment of William Esbensen for the supposed crime of providing medical marijuana to willing clients. This isn’t to say that Dugan rejected such profits as a matter of principle; he simply believed that he and his comrades in the Malheur County Sheriff’s Office should be the ones enjoying the windfall. Dugan’s desire to imprison Esbensen and his business partner, Raymond Kangas, was left unrealized: They were sentenced to probation after being found guilty of “providing marijuana for consideration” under … Continue reading Prohibition Is Plunder