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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
Most drug dealers are users, started off by another dealer with the hint that they can supply their own need by selling the drug too.
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In numbers, that is completely true, I believe but in volume, combined they are still small fish. They are the replaceable ones, easily disposed of if wanted. They might make what, a grand, a couple of grand a week but the big fish make millions each week. Some make tens of millions a week or more.
These guys don't sell grams but kilos or tons, and they don't stand on the corner. They are in the shadow paying others to do the jobs. The very top make good efforts in staying out of the spotlight, getting the big money and handing out jobs via a chain of people. On that level, the ones staying alive the longest are the ones not using since users are often seen as a liability and security risk and are not rarely found face down in a ditch somewhere, or if they're Mexican, their family members are found face down in a ditch somewhere if there are anyone left in the town alive to discover anything at all.
Rarely are these big fish caught and when they are caught, the prisons show little to no interest in isolating them. On the contrary. These big fish have prison guards and directors, police, lawyers and judges, soldiers, leutenants and generals, and politicians, on their payrolls. The ones taking the bribes won't bite the hand that feeds them.
For that reason alone don't I have the slightest illusion that any state or Govt will solve the drug problem. They will go public crying out for war against drugs but apart from the lone weirdo who didn't take bribes, war against drugs would more likely mean war against the gang or family that threatens their own favourite gang or family. Call me cynical but that's how I gathered it is.