> Oddly enough, as someone who actually smoked pot for most of his life,
> I have never met a drug dealer like that. Some were college students,
> most held legitimate jobs ranging from clerk at a head-shop to
> software engineer. Contrary to my co-worker's belief, most of them
> always gave a fair deal, but perhaps that's due to my propensity to
> not deal repeatedly with people who sell ounces that weigh only 25
> grams.
>
> One of the best drug dealers I ever knew would always pick out seeds
> and stems as he weighed out my bag - he didn't think it was fair to
> sell me shit and it was always sold at a fair price. And by the time
> he got done weighing out my bag, I was always stoned as hell because
> he was smoking me out the whole time.
>
> His biggest failing was not that he was a ruthless bastard waiting to
> stab you in the back - it was that he was too trusting. Even 15 years
> ago, I didn't think it was very smart of him to have a big "420" sign
> at the back of his garage which was usually open with his
> stoner-sticker-plastered Mustang parked there most of the time.
>
> In all the time I knew him, he always held a "regular job-type job"
> (as Mr. White so eloquently put it in Reservoir Dogs).
>
> He eventually got busted, probably as a result of him being too
> trusting of his customers. Less than a year before he was busted, he
> started a grow-op in his house, and he was more than happy to show it
> off to whoever passed through his door. My guess is that some poor
> sucker he was involved with got busted and was pressured by the fuzz
> to turn someone else in.
>
> It's a fucking shame that law enforcement would ever waste OUR tax
> dollars on someone like that.
>
>