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Most drug dealers are not "big organized groups." I don't know from Hansa, but I'm betting a big organized group is not likely to use them as a single point of

• TeMPOraL 9y ago
  > Most drug dealers are not "big organized groups." Who do you think provides them with the drugs?
  • rhizome 9y ago
    Generally? Slightly bigger drug dealers. Selling to end users is practically a mug's game, so there is no end to the number of people wanting to act as middlemen to avoid it.
• freeflight 9y ago
  Of course, it wouldn't have been their only market, but it's among them. Even something ostensibly harmless as cannabis can finance quite questionable people and groups. A while ago Arte France released a series titled "Cannabis", where the plot revolves around a shipment of Morrocan hashish lost on the Mediterranean sea, with the consequences playing out all over Europe. And while it's a fictional plot, it still paints a somewhat accurate picture how a lot of this business goes down.
  • rhizome 9y ago
    Of course, it wouldn't have been their only market That's not how I was using "single point of failure." The failure I was speaking to was identification by law enforcement.