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Originally Posted by jimmyjude
You are completey wrong about this.
Drug dealers make less than minimum wage. Only the top member of the drug gangs make money.
In the book Freakonomics this was proven unequivocally.
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You're right, but you're wrong too. I'll explain.
In the book Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner are talking about a gang that sells crack cocaine. It is true that in a gang situation's "economic system" (if I can take the liberty of calling it such) the man at the top makes most of the money and divides much smaller portions to the goons. But here is the problem with the argument. While most gang members are drug dealers, most drug dealers are not gang members. Do not be mislead, the profits on drug dealing are sky high. Especially in the selling of crack cocaine, you can easily more than double your money. If you buy the cocaine and make it yourself, you can at least double that again, if not more. Think about that, for every $500 worth of shit will net you $2000. Some people make that in a night, but even if we go conservative and say a week. You can't name me one McD's manager that makes that in a week. Maybe a month?
I stick with my argument that Bill Cosby was incomplete on this issue. He should've explained moral or ethical issues. See I think the whole Just Say No and D.A.R.E. organizations base their arguments on lies. (Much like this administration, sorry JJ) Instead of telling children that marijuana is the gateway drug, and if you smoke a big green fatty today, next week you'll be shooting smack. That's a fabrication. They'll throw you numbers and statistics saying 90% of heroin users started out using pot. Well of course they did, but what is the percentage of pot smokers that go on to use heroin. They won't show you that statistic. And if you want to use that argument, caffiene or at least alcohol would be the gateway drug.
If you want kids not to smoke pot tell them that pot makes you lazy and unmotivated. Lazy and unmotivated people generally don't succeed in life. A little more genuine, ya know?