The Daily Texan
By Lena Price
Published: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Texans might need to prepare themselves for a self-described “pothead” attorney general.
Barry Cooper, a former Drug Enforcement Administration narcotics agent, announced that he will be running for the highest law enforcement position in the state next year to a group of about 50 UT students in Garrison Hall on Monday.
During his time as a narcotics agent, Cooper completed more than 800 drug busts by himself and assisted in hundreds of other cases.
“I really believed that I was right in arresting all those people. My parents raised me to believe all these people doing drugs were bad people,” Cooper said. “But soon I realized I was causing more harm to the people I was arresting than a bag of pot [would have caused].”
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