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Who’d a thought that drug dealing was so lucrative?
by kingkawn 7y ago
Who’d a thought that drug dealing was so lucrative?
- lawn 7y agoThere's a certain irony on how the U.S. has spent billions on the war on drugs, yet they still have a gigantic drug dealing problem, right under their nose.
- WorldMaker 7y agoIt's not that ironic when you realize that some of it is causal: restricting the supply of dealers makes the remaining dealers more bold (and gives them more incentive to pay lobbying costs to encourage the government to keep the supply restricted).
- mywittyname 7y agoIrony is not the word I'd used. People are using their government influence to rob citizens blind for their self-enrichment. The war on drugs was used to enrich police forces and suppliers while the opioid problem was for the benefit of the pharmacy and insurance companies.