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Drug dealing is a crime that involves the unauthorized sale of certain consumable
substances, such as marijuana and heroin. The severity of this crime generally
depends upon factors such as the type of substance, the amount that a person is
caught selling or attempting to sell, and the jurisdiction where the commits the
offense. In many instances, conviction results in a felony and individuals may be
incarcerated for first offenses. Some countries have even harsher penalties that
allow capital punishment for these cases.
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A drug dealer is a person who sells controlled substances. People tend to think of
drug dealers solely as individuals who sell illicit drugs, sometimes referred to as
street drugs. The unauthorized sale of prescription medication can also be
classified as drug dealing and is a major problem in some communities.
Depending on the circumstances of the case, the penalties for these offenses can
be just as severe as those for the dealing of street drugs
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Drug dealing is a problem that has severe effects on many communities. The
economic impact is often visible in the degeneration of the standard of living for
the consumers and the rapid improvement in the quality of living for the drug
dealers. This crime also reveals the disparities in many criminal justice systems,
since in some jurisdictions, minorities are disproportionately convicted.
The penalties for drug dealing depend on the circumstances of the case, but they can
be harsh. One factor that commonly affects the severity of the crime is the type of
substance that a person sold. Some substances are considered more dangerous
than others and are, therefore, subject to more severe consequences.
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Quantity of the drug in possession can also play a major role in the treatment of this
crime. In some instances, the sale of small amounts is only considered a minor
crime. All jurisdictions have at least some type of drug dealing offense. Since the
definition of the crime can vary, the penalties also tend to widely vary.
Punishments can include community service, fines, and incarceration. In some
places, such as Yemen and China, drug dealing can be a capital offense and the
guilty parties may be executed.
In some jurisdictions, the majority of cases against drug dealers are handled by way
of plea bargaining. This is a process that involves the accused making some type
of deal with the prosecutor. That deal could involve pleading guilty to a reduced
charge or it may involve avoiding incarceration by providing information about
other criminal activities.
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WHAT DEALERS WILL TELL YOU
When teens were surveyed to find out why they started using drugs in the first place, 55%
replied that it was due to pressure from their friends. They wanted to be cool and
popular. Dealers know this.
They will approach you as a friend and offer to “help you out” with “something to bring you
up.” The drug will “help you fit in” or “make you cool.”
Drug dealers, motivated by the profits they make, will say anything to get you to buy their
drugs. They will tell you that taking LSD will “expand your mind.”
They don’t care if the drugs ruin your life as long as they are getting paid. All they care
about is money. Former dealers have admitted they saw their buyers as “pawns in a
chess game.”
Get the facts about drugs. Make your own decisions.
“Within my own little trip world I started to get paranoid, feeling my friends were conspiring
to do something, maybe even kill me. I thought to myself, I have to get out of here.
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“I ran into my friend’s bedroom, opened the window as wide as it would go and
jumped out. Luckily for me my friend lived on the ground floor. I ran across a
wooded area toward a bridge. I could feel my heart starting to beat faster and
faster. I heard voices telling me I was going to have a heart attack and die.
“This was not the end. Years later, I was running and all of a sudden, bam, I was
having flashbacks of the time I was running in my trip. I started to have a bad
panic attack and heard voices telling me I was going to have a heart attack and
die.
It continues to be an ongoing trauma. Are you ready for that?
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A drug dealer is someone who sells drugs illegally. Drug dealers can range from individual
drug users buying a little extra of their drug to save money or to help pay for their habit,
to groups working within highly organized money-making operations that run like any
other business.
Traditionally, drug dealers are seen as a key part of the problem of addiction in our
communities, and stereotypically, there is a lot of overlap with "pushing" controlled
drugs such as marijuana, heroin, meth and cocaine. Although this is the case with
some drug dealers, in reality, there is a lot of variability among drug dealers, the types
of drugs they sell, the reasons they sell, and who they sell drugs to. For example, there
is currently an underground market for prescription pain medications for people who
have chronic pain and are addicted to painkillers. When their pain medication use
escalates, they are often labeled as "drug seeking," and their physician or insurance
company may cut off their supply to the medications they need to control their pain, so
they may turn to a drug dealer to purchase these drugs.
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Also Known As: dope dealer
Examples:
Jen's insurance company stopped covering the cost of her pain medications when
they found out she had been "double doctoring," so she started buying the same
type of painkillers, and medical marijuana from Jim, a local drug dealer who
obtained the drugs through prescriptions for his own chronic pain condition.
1. The One Who Wants to Be Your Friend
He's a master of entrapment. Trying to break free of his sticky weed-web will only get
you further entangled. He'll do anything to hang out with you, even if it means
locking the door and making bagel bites. You say to yourself, "alright, maybe this
one time." It's hard to say no, but you know you can't be seen with this guy. He's a
f***ing drug dealer.
Tagline: "You and I make a good team. We should hang out more!"�
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The Late One
You called him three hours ago. He's still not here. You're friends are getting antsy
and the Death Cab show starts in 45 minutes. All drug dealers have a skewed
concept of time, but this species is particularly out of sync with the rest of the
world. He'll get you your product, but say goodbye to any movie previews or
opening bands you were planning on seeing.
Tagline: "I'll be there in five minutes".
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. Earthy One
Rather than living by the code of the traditional drug dealer, the earthy one
believes he's doing you a service in the name of mother nature. Aside from taking
his job a little too seriously, he'll be totally useless after the transaction, unless
you have any interest in learning about the fungus that he's cultivating in his
dreads.
Tagline:"I mean, how are you going to get any closer to gaya without it?"
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The Sketchy One
Suddenly, you're wondering if you should be buying drugs from this guy. He's
spilling shit everywhere, he talks too loud, and he clearly hasn't heard the term
"never get high on your own supply." Turn off your cell phone around this guy, the
Drug and Firearms officials could be listening.
Tagline: "Shit! Everything is totally fucked, dude!"
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5. The Girl
She's hot. She's in charge. She sells you drugs. All sorts of conflicting feelings are
coursing through your veins. She transports weed in places that none of your
other male dealers could…like her purse.� It takes you three visits to realize
she's totally not into you and she's a damn good saleswoman.
Tagline: "Baby, I know $150 for an eighth sounds expensive…"
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The Entrepreneur
You're going to college so you can sit in an office someday and get a paycheck.
He's selling drugs so he can…uh… sell drugs for the rest of his life. This guy has
more gadgets than James Bond and his utility belt puts Batman to shame. He
takes himself so seriously that he's pretty sure someone will make of movie of his
life if they aren't already. His favorite movie is Blow, even though he's never seen
it all the way through.
Tagline: "I've got to call you back, my other Blackberry is ringing."
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The One You Really Shouldn't Be Buying Drugs From
This includes but is not limited to: family members, friend's family members,
police officers, children, Quinoas employees, hockey players, creatures of ancient
lore and people in suits. These are the people that your conscience has a serious
problem with; but it's late and you're desperate, so you dive into that moral grey
area head first. You'll regret it the next day, or the next time you order a bacon
cheddar ranch sandwich.
Tagline: "Make sure you don't forget, Aunt Janet's birthday is the 14th."
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. The One Who's Out of Your League
The entrance to this guy's house has a few too many unnecessary roman columns
and/or marble fountains. His sports cars are fanned out in front of his compound
like he's filming an episode of MTV Cribs. There are multiple scary dogs at the
front door and just as many scary people in suits at attention. He laughs when
you say how much you want to buy, no matter how much it is. He deals drugs out
of metal briefcases and wears bathrobes everywhere. This man is known around
town as a "force". He is way out of your league. He usually sells white and brown
drugs and eats the green ones for breakfast.�
Tagline: "Hello my friend. I apologize for the strip search, but a man of my status
can never be too careful."
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michelle0916: Contrary to what you see on TV, drug dealers do not live a glamorous life full
of fast money and plenty of women. Selling drugs is illegal and dangerous. If you do not
end up in jail you may end up dead, killed by a rival drug dealer. Please rethink this
career choice. If you are really interested in dealing drugs, may I suggest a career as a
Pharmacist?
We will no longer refer to it as "drug dealing." This implies a horrible, horrible connotation of
drugs being something to be dealt. What do we deal: cards and crack. So you can see
the man trying to equate drug use and selling to gambling, perhaps the most offensive
means of acquiring money. It takes no hard work, and its not that fun when you lose.
Instead, drugs should be equated to free-trade capitalism, in which an ambitious
salesperson offers the benefits of his or her product, and hopes the customer agrees
that said products value outweighs its cost. This is how business is run worldwide! So
from now on, we will refer to this as "drug sales" or "drug distribution." We will refer to
the so-called dealers as salespeople.
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Anyone can be a salesperson, male or female, young or old. But it is important to target the
right audience, and it is even more important to move about crowds in which you are a
member. It is best to use common sense here: sell to the people who you are normally
seen around. You wouldn't see George Bush anywhere near a drug salesman, so why
would you assume that he'd stop by just for a 30 second chat? That looks suspicious,
and its a good way to get caught by the man!
History of Drug Sales and Distribution
Here seen the For Dummies edition of the book with a small quantity of hash that is given
as a gift which will help you getting started with your new illegal business.
Lithographic evidence of an early drug salesperson. The pony express, in addition to being
a really rad sexual position, also doubled as an efficient means of pawning interstate
drug trafficking charges on an unsuspecting mail carrier.
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Contrary to popular belief, prostitution is not the world's oldest profession -- it is merely a subset
of the world's oldest profession: sales. And further, selling items which trip your mind out or
make your eyes red is hardly new. The same drugs we all enjoy now didn't just pop up one
day, but rather, they existed from the beginning of time. A Chinese monk wrote “before
Christ” that marijuana was a cure for constipation, memory and female problems.
And true enough, life is enjoyable when you can experience the love of finally catching the dragon.
The Scriptures state that “Sin is a pleasure for a season.” Drugs persisted for eons as an
enjoyable recreational activity. Even still, many drugs continue to be used for the benefit of
humanity. Dentists employ the intense euphoric pleasure of 'laughing gas', better known as
'nos' or 'inhaling whipped cream vapor gas' on the street. Noted philanthropist Snoop Doggy
Dogg is a staunch supporter of the mental health benefits of marijuana, as is the entire
Rastafarian faith. However, PET SCANS show small holes in the grey matter of the brain just
like opians (vicodin, heroin, ) when a person uses marijuana. The DEA has marijuana on
Schedule 1, as a non-medical use drug.
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The problem only arose in the 1980s, when the Republicans, under Ronald Reagan,
started to divert attention from soaring oil prices by launching a war on a segment
of our society: drugs. This may sound familiar to you, if you're American, because
you're no doubt familiar with our constant wars on intangible things. Ever hear of
the war on terror? How about the war on intolerance? And who could forget the
war on science, which tragically ended with fundamentalist executions of
evolutionist teachers all over Mississippi and Arkansas?
The profile of a drug dealer is incredibly variant, depending on geography, the
particular drug(s) sold, socio-economic status, etc.
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PROFILE
Are you talking about a white, mid-level cocaine smuggler in southern Florida?
Or are you talking about a 15-year-old black kid living in the inner-city and selling
on a street corner?
Or are you talking about a middle-aged biker who cooks crank in an old barn?
A rural farmer who grows marijuana in the woods behind his house?
Every one of those people is a "drug dealer" but their lives and experiences have
almost certainly been incredibly different from one another. They each have more
in common with other non-drug dealers in their demographic/community than
they do with one another.
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This happened in Mexico but it was reportedly a case of small scale drug dealers
killing their competition – another small scale drug dealer.
Body of a burned to a crisp man was found at an intersection of Ahuehuete and
Amate Streets in the Colonia San Rafael, Tlalnepantla, Estado de México.
Authorities believe that this was done by a rival gang because this drug trafficker
was stealing their business.
Apparently, the man was shot dead elsewhere then brought to this rather abandon
spot on the side of the road, doused with gasoline and set alight. He was found by
police patrolmen who were on a routine round across the city. When found, the
body was still in flames. Bandage over the victim’s mouth was probably put on
him before he was killed, possibly to keep him quiet, although I’m not entirely
sure bandages are fit for this job. Unless its purpose was something else.
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Drug dealer sentenced to four life terms
By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun | November 16, 2011
A 31-year-old Baltimore drug dealer, who murdered an FBI informant in south
Baltimore's Westport neighborhood in 2009, was sentenced Wednesday to four
life terms in federal prison, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
Antonio "Mack" Hall was convicted in August of killing Kareem Kelly Guest, who
told investigators that Hall liked to "bang the gun" and was connected to several
drug-related Baltimore killings. Jurors also found Hall guilty of weapons violations
and a seven-year conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine
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Pharmacist gets six years for selling to drug dealer
April 10, 2010
A Reisterstown pharmacist was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for
selling 34,000 prescription painkillers to a drug dealer, the U.S. attorney's office
for Maryland announced. Ketankumar Arvind Patel, 48, was also ordered to
forfeit the $400,000 he was paid for the pills, which contained the powerful
opioid oxycodone. Court records say that Patel, who lives in Eldersburg, told the
dealer how to write phony prescriptions for OxyContin and Percocet, then filled
them from his Medicine Shoppe pharmacy in the 11800 block of Reisterstown
Road between 2007 and 2009.
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