Should i deal drugs

But is that really any different from other ethically-dubious products, like palm oil? Just as "Machine Gun" McGurn lived up to his name raining lead over gangland Chicago, all the shootings and stabbings today are thanks to our modern-day prohibition.

Switzerland has gone as far as legalised heroin , which is dispensed to addicts for free at clinics to keep them away from crime and nasty street smack. Studies have shown that in the years since weed the most popular drug was legalised in Colorado , the number of kids smoking doobies has stayed more-or-less the same and maybe even slightly fallen.

Meanwhile, the number of tobacco smokers is a fraction of what it once was just a few decades ago thanks to successful education and public health campaigns. While writing my book, I travelled the world meeting cartel leaders and contract killers — there are quite a few stops on the road between impressionable kids pulled into county lines rings and a Mafia boss dissolving his enemies in tubs of acid. Dealers are just a symptom. Yes, we live in a savage underworld selling dangerous products but the only way to fix that is by changing the system.

So, for now, think of your local Candyman. At times like these, small businesses need support. Niko Vorobyov is a government-certified convicted drug dealer turned writer and author of the book Dopeworld , about the international drug trade. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance.

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List of Partners vendors. A drug dealer is an individual who sells drugs, of any type or quantity, illegally. They can be small-time dealers who sell small quantities to offset the costs of their own drug use, or they can be highly organized groups and businessmen within high-organized operations that run like a serious business.

Traditionally, drug dealers are seen as a key part of the problem of addiction in our communities, and there is often a lot of overlap with "pushing" controlled drugs such as marijuana , heroin , meth, and cocaine. Fellow students feel comfortable with him, Harry says. Harry never intended to become a drug dealer. They were going to go to dealers anyway so it made sense that I made a bit of money out of it.

Everything spiralled from there, because there was a demand and he was in a position to supply it. It was just to supplement my own usage but, obviously, it escalated and I got a good reputation so my number went round.

The relationship between student life and experimental drug use is well established. Even politicians — from Bill Clinton to Boris Johnson — have openly admitted to trying drugs at university.

But what is less discussed is how drug dealers have exploited student loans and student halls in recent years. Back in , it was reported that drug dealers were even enrolling at university in order to secure student loans and places in halls of residence. And, since then, anecdotally at least, there have been reports of increasing numbers of students, like Harry, who are dealing to avoid financial hardship.

University campuses might feel like safer places to deal, away from the prying eyes of the police and rival gangs, but Harry had a recent encounter which showed just how dangerous his business could be. I take more precautions.

If I had ended up in that van I could be dead. The rest went into buildings. Taking families suffering social problems out of one house and putting them in a new house with no extra supports does not solve the problem. There are few, if any, people working at the grassroots level who would advocate this approach. If people do not have hope, they have nothing to lose. The majority of young people involved in crime are not making a large amount of money.

Nor do I believe they have malice in their hearts. They are doing it because they have no hope. They are hopeless. William Priestley has worked for more than 15 years with at-risk young people in Dublin, Limerick and the United States. His work on urban renewal and marginalisation, Inferno, Kid will premiere at the Limerick Fringe, April 4th-6th.

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