Spinoff: drug dealers aren't ALL bad are they?

Question

A lot of the people responded with hate to a similiar question. No offense but I'm sure some would be taken. But from the avatars they all look like they are middle class white people who probably never had to struggle in their life. i'm not saying selling drugs is right but when your survival is at stake what would you do to survive???

My partial response to the other persons questions.

I use to do it...yeah a woman selling drugs. I was broke, no one would hire me even with a good education, common sense, and good work ethics. I was about to be homeless and already near starvation. Programs through charites and government take time to help so I did it. For all those people that say drug dealers are lazy guess again. It's harder then a real job. You're basically working from the crack of dawn to the crack of dawn again. You have to always be on your toes for the police, other dealers trying to steal your product or location, and for desperate hypes that will kill for their fix. You gotta break down drugs, bag it or bottle it. Not easy at all. If you sell on the streets you're out in the eliments all day. Rain, sleet, or, snow like the post office. If you are big time you have payoffs to make and if you don't your dead or locked up. You constantly running back and forth. picking up, dropping off, delivering.

Other part of my answer:

I don't know why you do it, but for me it was a mean of survival until someone would give me a chance to be a productive citizen in society. I'm not going to say stop doing what you're doing because I don't know why you're doing it. But becareful, be safe, and keep trying to be somebody without selling. Just remember drug dealers don't have a retirement plan and I don't see many 60 year olds selling.

Sorry to be the one to tell some of you guys this, but life isn't always the way we want it. OOOHHH get a job...that just sounds stupid to a person that gets up everyday and goes and looks for a job. Dressing in thrift store clothes to try and look presentable to people who just don't care. Walking until your feet bleed because you can't even afford public transportation. About to pass out because you can't hardly move anymore because your to weak from lack of food. OOOHHH selling drugs is bad...That also sounds stupid to a person who hasn't eaten in days and who lives in a horrible place with no water or heat and about to lose that. One person even said steal...Well you know what I'd rather take money from that drug addict who doesn't care about themselves then someone who is also just TRYING to make it in life. It hurts society...well guess what if society would help those in need instead of condemning them society wouldn't be affected. When you or YOUR CHILD need food then what

Sorry Alannah S for the assumption about white middle classed/or middle aged people. For me to assume is just the same as people making assumptions about drug dealers.

Answer 1

Nah, I don't think they're all bad at all. I used to see them all the time when I worked in Community Mental Health. They would come in with their fancy suits and their leather briefcases and bring in food for the psychologists and sometimes us peons were allowed to eat too.

Everytime I would go to the hospital, I'd see them cruising the offices and getting out of their expensive cars.

Peddling their dope like anti-depressants and other pharmaceutical candy.

Now, I've known a few people who sold marijuana too and frankly I think they're fantastic and very brave to go against our completely ridiculous drug laws in this country. The War on Drugs is an ideological war and it targets mostly non-violent harmless folks and then takes away their children and property.

Now I can hear you say, "but what about all the crack dealers running around killing people?" Well, how did the crack get here in the first place. Just in case you're wondering, CIA also stands for Cocaine Import Agency.

Thanks for asking such a provocative question.

And by the way, I'm middle-aged and white.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I used to teach writing on the college level, and one assignment I used to give asked students to write about a job experience they had, and what they learned from it. I had one really lovely student, a young man who immigrated here with his family to find a better life, and because he didn't have a lot of English, he couldn't find a good job. He wrote his paper about how he ended up selling drugs to support his family, always tried to not get mixed up in any serious danger, and he earned enough to save some and and start going to the local community college. I really learned a lot from that student, and he was a wonderful person. People do whatever they need to do to survive, sometimes. No one can judge anyone else's path.

I no longer teach, but I heard just last winter that that student had graduated from the community college with a degree in computers. It took him five years of part-time classes, but he did it, and I was very happy to hear about it! I don't know what or where his path in life will lead him, but I do know that he did what he did for the sake of himself and his family. Who can say that was wrong?

Answer 4

Get a job. There is no excuse for giving potentially lethal things to people just so you can get by.

Aladdin - Steal so you can eat. That's not killing/physically hurting or damaging the lives of the people you steal from as long as you steal only what you need to survive.

Employment rates - Get up. Get dressed. Work. If you live in an area that has high umemployment rates due to lack of jobs - MOVE. North America is booming people.. they are desperate for people. The city I live in is paying a uneducated receptionist with no experience 20 dollars an hour to start.

Answer 5

Selling drugs to make money shouldn't even be an option to anyone. Because it should be a legally controlled substance and sold like cigarettes or alcohol. Nobody argues that drugs are good for you, because surely there are harmfull physical consequences to ingesting drugs....just like cigarettes, alcohol, too much fatty meat, too many candy bars......

HOWEVER, the hyperinflated profits created by the illegal status of the drugs is MUCH worse for society. The fact that they are illegal is what makes them 100x more harmful to society than the drugs themselves. For evidence, research prohibition. Here's the punchline: When was the last time Budweiser wacked a guy from Miller? or Jim Beam sprayed a hail of gunfire into the Jack Daniels household? or somebody from Stoli kidnapped the daughter from somebody at Grey Goose for ransom or turf rights?

Answer 6

that is why I do not fault them totally. The conditions dictate the sale of drugs in some communities because of a lack of an economy due to poor leadership among the African American community. However, the ramifications to those communities have been devastating so in actuality it seems like a no win situation.

Answer 7

People are people. It's the things you do that makes you bad or good.

It's hard to say if a drug dealer is good or bad. In most cases they are using other people's addictions to fund their lifestyle. So I don't see that as been a very positive thing.

Answer 8

You say that selling drugs was a means to survival. Just think of the lives you could have destroyed by selling them to people desperate enough to commit crime to pay for them or damaging their bodies. minds and families by using them.

Answer 9

Well, I'm white, middle class, and look exactly like my avatar! (Not.) What kind of drugs are you talking about, specifically? I hope my dealer doesn't stop dealing, else I'll have to find another way to get my weed.....

Answer 10

Selling drugs is illegal and it is harmful to society. It's wrong and it doesn't matter if you need the money or not.