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So I'm a seeker.

At that time as well, Northeastern is a co-op school.

So you go to school for six months, you work for six months.

I was able to convince my co-op advisor to let me be a security guard in the nightclub industry in Boston for my co-op for school.

Okay, so five year program, I'm studying religion and I'm working as a security guard in the 90s in the nightclub scene in Boston.

I have a front row seat when ecstasy hits the scene.

I start working when it's high test stimulants and alcohol and I'm there continuing to work when the scene gets introduced to ecstasy, MDMA.

I not only get to see how it affects people, but it affects the whole culture.

The people at the clubs are no longer looking at each other like, who are you and what do you want?

They're saying hi and smiling.

They're high-fiving each other when they meet up.

They're hugging each other.

I had that in my head in my 20s.

So I become a cop in my 30s.

I meet this police chief.

He notices that I think a little differently.

I see things a little differently.

My background's a little different than your typical officer.

He starts taking me to the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference every year.

This is a really important point, the IACP.