Lots of criminals would quit if they had stability. Like food, a roof, a paycheck, purpose.
I was a weed dealer for a while… it’s shitty and annoying. I’m glad I’m out of this shit…
Only the big dealers and druglords enjoy it because the rest has to do the shitty job…
The risk calculation makes no sense. For like ~$10 profit for an 8th you send some guy away who has plenty of incentive to rat you out when he gets caught with it. Depending on the state you could see a few years in prison.
I knew someone who grew basically scientifically. He really loved the botanical aspect of it, but then he quit and sold alllll his gear. Lights, water systems, everything. He said the social aspect of it was always tiring for him but after dispensaries around him opened it got even worse. What a loss too considering dispos only focus on certian strains of flower that grows the quickest, his flower was high quality grow of high quality strains, and didn’t go through some of the overprocessing commercial grows use.
My wife and I still grow for private use and also because I don’t want to hang out with anyone in the business at all. Most of them were dicks anyway
Its simple math: fed minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Even at a full 40/hrs a week (which doesn’t happen since they want to avoid providing healthcare), that’s $290/wk, or $1160/month, and that’s before taxes. Working your ass off, with a likely amount of physical labor, under a middle management chode on a power trip that probably has the IQ of a walnut but is good at kissing the asses of people above them while making your life miserable.
Now say you sell eighths of weed for $45, and you’re buying ounces at $200 a piece. There’s 8 eighths to an ounce, that’d $25 as a cost per eighth, leaving $20 in profit. To gross $2k/month, you’d have to sell 100 eighths, or roughly 3 eighths a day. Or, you can sell 10 eighths a day, 5 days a week, and gross $4k/month all profit. And this assumes you’re either driving around are sitting on your couch.
Yeah, no shit that math maths in favor of hanging out at home selling weed all day. And that’s just weed. There’s much higher profit in other substances. Now that said, there’s much more risk in selling weed, be it the law or getting robbed/assaulted/etc. But for some with few options, you can easily see how much more attractive that is than working a dead end retail job just to keep the lights on.
When I was 19 - 21 I sold drugs in the club scene. Early 90s. I did it Thursday - Sunday. I made £1k per week minimum.
It was not fun but … I couldn’t make surviving money with the shitty jobs I had (I’d been working since I was 15) and this was easy. It was 90s clubs, they practically sold themselves.
Decent money but lots of stress.
I’ve got a coworker now and have had multiple others where this job was their first job in life. They just sold drugs before and, for some, after.
All of them didn’t want to sell drugs but it was easy money for their skill set and it paid for their use. From what they said it was a pretty annoying job.
All you wrote rings true for me.
This guy maths the math…
I bet thats true of most jobs
Same goes for their clients. Most people turn to drugs as a way to escape something. Sometimes it’s trauma, sometimes it’s just boredom. But happy, fulfilled people don’t normally feel the need to do anything beyond very limited experimentation.
This goes for ALL drugs, from weed to horse. The only difference is in the intensity of “denying reality”-power of the chosen substance, which is why people who are even heavily addicted can sometimes still manage to function, at least outwardly.
I mean, yeah only idiots think a life of crime is fun, but how do you even make that survey? “OK to start, you are a drug dealer, correct?” Starts taking notes
*illegal drug dealers.
Idunno, probably some Purdue Pharma reps that would have preferred another source of income too 🤷🏻
Selling drugs is an extremely stressful job.
And the other 40% sell mushrooms and make no money either way.
