RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
September 20, 2014 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2014 at 5:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 20, 2014 at 4:25 pm)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: It's an easy way for poor people to make easy money.That's often said - but it's not actually true. The pay is shit, there's no room for advancement, there are no benefits, the competition is fierce and may shoot at you, and on top of all of that you have the cops to deal with (also, likely, shooting at you). That's why you don't see retired drug dealers lounging on beach chairs at the Don Cesar with their mounds and mounds of cash. They live at home with their mothers.
It's a damned hard way to make a rough non-living. If you actually think it's an easy profession fueled by easy money - give it a try. If it were legal, it might be a -decent- living (check the margins on dro where it's been recently legalized - and check the cost of operations) - but It wouldn't be any easier than making a living growing cotton.
Your affluent neighborhood probably has what amounts to an entire pharmacy flowing into the sewers daily. Junkies by any other name. The amount of drugs present and consumed in -any area- is directly related to the inhabitants ability to afford them. To you, the crackheads and meth addicts are junkies - but the prescription pill poppers are what? Productive members of society not in any way engaging in the exact same behaviors? If the residents of slums could afford those pills........
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