The dope game is way harder than it seems...

[1/2OfDaBruinz]

EXACTLY....man I could talk about early 2000's for dayz.....

I would take trips with my roomate and visit my cuz in Duval for a half-P.

He was pushin them for this dude that used to get fronted like 50-60 from Texas..That why I know that 250/pd was real situation at one point...especially for that reggie-mid

Yeah man, those were the days

I used to sell weed on a casual basis to my social circle, which removed the danger from it because it was only people I knew. Even so, unless you're a mid to top level distributor you're not going to be making that much money. I had a client base of about 30-40 people and I'd pick up an O every few days, so it was really only enough for me to be able to smoke for free and make pocket change. After a 3-4 months, I profited about a g, which is the same I'd make from a part time job.

If you've read the book Freakonomics, it's the same even for hard drugs, which are theoretically addictive and more profitable, and also way more dangerous. Street level drug dealers make barely above minimum wage, the only reason people get caught up in it is the lack of an alternative, the glamorization of the lifestyle, and the small possibility of moving up the chain and becoming a mid-level distributor or kingpin (who actually do make large amounts of money, but it is very very difficult to get there before getting killed or locked up).

There's other hustles out there that are safer, make more money, and can be put on a resume. Honestly, props to all the dedicated drug dealers who aren't scummy and handle their trade professionally, though. They allow all the stoners and recreational drug users to enjoy our lifestyles. When you do it right, it's an actual service.



This dude gets it. You can flip anything there's an opening in the market for. I know and have heard of people who go to thrift stores / swap meets, pick out clothes they think people would fukk with, and resell the threads on eBay for profit, and make a living off of it. And that's just one idea. I respect anybody who can get on their hustle and do it in a way that doesn't fukk others over.

First off, if you had 30-40 people for clientele (which is an enormous clientele base for a dealer) and you wee only making a grand every few months then something wasn't right. That doesn't really add up. Especially if you were selling breakdowns which it sounds like you were since you copped an O every few days.

Also, I've read the Freakonomics book too. It's a cool book but it's overrate as hell. People love to bring it up when discussing the economics of drug dealers. The main reason why the average drug dealer is not successful is because they are not disciplined enough to not touch their re-up money and keep the flip going. The second reason is that they don't have the clientele base to justify them selling drugs so they end up sitting on their product, tying their funds up in the process, and then have to sell it for cheaper than they intended, thus fukking up their profit margins. The third reason is people getting high off their own supply and fukking up their profit margins. The nikkas who wrote Freakonomics never sold no dope, so they really don't know what they are talking about. It's much more intricate than that. It basically comes down to discipline.

 

[blackzeus]

It's happen before...
I saw a white boy drop out of college because he stumbled across a connect who had pounds for $200 out of Kentucky...

Lil wigga was like "Pounds for $250???!!!!"

I'm out this bish Oh, obligatory "Stay in school breh"

 

[Donald J Trump]

Lol come on don't be THAT guy

shyt is childish

dont be what guy

Don't make me take that ride, slime. IF you can do better than the buck 50 per zip, then forreal lemme know.

i aint talkin bout that green tho

 

[CM_Burns]

250 for a lb of regs I could believe, that's about it.

You can get ounces of good sh1t nowadays for 150 easy, even 100. A pound though? Nah

I get your bigger point though.

 

[Harry B]

Lol @ harder than it seems, it seems hard as fukk.
I've heard of few people that moved weight for 30 years straight without getting knocked and shyt.
That's why OG's in the game are as old as juniors in normal businesses

The problem is that drug dealers have a hard time retiring before they get knocked. I'm talking about the big dogs like Meech or all the legends from the late 80s and early 90s. All of them could retire and live a comfortable life.

Another problem is that few smart people choose to become drug dealers, so it's nearly exclusively dumb people trying to work in the hardest field. It's hard to find super hard, street smart and book smart people in developed countries. That's a reason to why the Russians, Southern Italians and cats like that reign supreme. Russians have fukking former agents, educated people and on in their organizations.

 

[Shiva]

Yeah man, those were the days



First off, if you had 30-40 people for clientele (which is an enormous clientele base for a dealer) and you wee only making a grand every few months then something wasn't right. That doesn't really add up. Especially if you were selling breakdowns which it sounds like you were since you copped an O every few days.

Also, I've read the Freakonomics book too. It's a cool book but it's overrate as hell. People love to bring it up when discussing the economics of drug dealers. The main reason why the average drug dealer is not successful is because they are not disciplined enough to not touch their re-up money and keep the flip going. The second reason is that they don't have the clientele base to justify them selling drugs so they end up sitting on their product, tying their funds up in the process, and then have to sell it for cheaper than they intended, thus fukking up their profit margins. The third reason is people getting high off their own supply and fukking up their profit margins. The nikkas who wrote Freakonomics never sold no dope, so they really don't know what they are talking about. It's much more intricate than that. It basically comes down to discipline.

Addressed this in earlier posts. Like I said before, I was smoking my own weed, so after I broke even I would sell a bit more and smoke the rest, and only make like $50 profit an O. Plus, I was being generous with the bags, putting 1.2 or 1.3 in a bag that should've been 1g, which in retrospect I wouldn't have done, since I realized that not everybody who you're 'cool' with will look out for you when shyt actually gets rough. So basically, for every 4 gs I sold, I was giving away a free g - I considered it more of a service than a business, but I was still a teenager and now I'm more business minded.

I don't think Freakonomics encapsulates everything there is about selling drugs, but it does give some insight into a trade that's usually not broken down into the numbers financially that I found valuable. I see what you're saying though, getting high off your own supply does fukk up your profit.

 

[gogogubari]

i aint talkin bout that green tho

I'm just playing fukking with you. I'm too cute to go to jail.


ETA:

 

[Donald J Trump]

I'm just playing fukking with you. I'm too cute to go to jail.


ETA:

You damn right you are

 

[FocusedDaily]

Not everyone has the land or the climate or is willing to grow outside due to risks involved


And if you are growing outdoors on a mass scale best believe you're gonna have to pay people to guard that shyt for u

And if you're growing indoors than we're talking about equipment, lighting, electricity costs etc

$250 a pound is $15 an ounce lol come on now it's not happening unless someone is picking up sticks and stems off the ground and selling them to you and if you smoking garbage like that kill yoself (not u personally)

I agree, that's why I was saying the markup is overhead is not "cost of production" per se. It's the costs associated with it being illegal (indoor growing, security, bribes, etc). But the actual cost of "growing" outdoors on any scale is pretty low relatively. Having to protect it and smuggle it is another thing.

I tried the indoor thing a couple years ago and it's not worth the hassle just to do it on a casual level if you live in the city. I was doing it in my garage, but the smell is crazy when it's confined like that. By the time you look at buying air filters and sh!t like that I just never did it again, it's not worth the headache just for a casual user. It was a fun experiment tho. Grew a few lbs and it cost less than $100 all in. But I spent a summer scared someone would notice the smell and call the cops.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

Stop smoking weed, brehs.

 

[jilla82]

if you trapping in the hood yea. If you trapping in the hood you LAWSE. Its all about the burbs and them college campuses baby. If you stay lowkey and don't get greedy you be aight

yup.
dudes just dont know.
Most of the dudes I have copped from were hella unassuming.

You would never know they were moving that much weight.
They only dealt w/ college kinds and corporate type people...just normal ass stoners.

 

[Frida Giezman]

Stop smoking weed, brehs.

Wish I could lol

I've tried believe me

 

[Lifer11]

Let's just say you find the connect of a lifetime and can get pounds of good green for $250...

You still gotta resell those pounds...
In the process of selling those pounds you will make a name for yourself possibly creating more business for yourself and possibly putting a target on your back for somebody trying to rob you.

*Also there is the chance that the person buying from you or the connect is being watched by authorities and that they drop your street name and info in cooperation.

It's an extremely troublesome game and if you really understand math and probability selling drugs is one of the worst decisions you can make.

No one has referred to weed as dope since the 70s. Also you're not going to find a pound of good weed for $250, maybe some DIRTTTTT regulars with more seeds than weed (in Philly GOOD weed like some exotics, pounds can range anywhere from $3000-5000, for some mids you're looking at like $1800-3200), if you can get your hands on this shyt I promise they will sell themselves.

And weed dealers are very rarely being watched by the cops, or federal agents of any kind. You'd have to be moving literally tons of weed (not tons as an adjective but tons as a unit of weight).

The hardest part is finding a solid connect, once you do that it's not hard at all. Especially weed because like I said law enforcement isn't very concerned about weed.

 

[jilla82]

I tried the indoor thing a couple years ago and it's not worth the hassle just to do it on a casual level if you live in the city. I was doing it in my garage, but the smell is crazy when it's confined like that. By the time you look at buying air filters and sh!t like that I just never did it again, it's not worth the headache just for a casual user. It was a fun experiment tho. Grew a few lbs and it cost less than $100 all in. But I spent a summer scared someone would notice the smell and call the cops.

if you live by yourself growing indoors is pretty easy.

A few years ago I grew 3 trees in my closet.
I had 2 roommates and neither of them knew about it.
I bought a tent and a air scrubber and the shyt was undetectable.
Cops even came to my place a few times for unrelated reasons...and I had no problems.

I did two grows.
Sold half of it to my guy that sells...and smoked the rest for the next year

 

[blackslash]

what part of ny fam? Probably looking to cop a few games off ya

Bk but I'm willing to do meet ups in the city if need be..pm me if u interested breh