Do you ever feel sorry for drug dealers?

ScumLord wrote: »

People seem to constantly overlook the most obvious reason people use drugs. Drugs are fun. The media and TV would have us believe people try drugs once and turn into addicts selling their ass on the street within a week. Which is very far removed from the truth. Most people use the illegal drugs no differently than people use legal drugs. Recreationally when they've got the time.

So even if we lived in a utopia people from all walks of life would use drugs.

People do overlook that fact the drugs are fun and the vast majority who try recreational drugs or so called harder drugs won't develop addictions or dependencies.

Significant amounts of people may never try harder drugs often because they never move in an environment exposed to harder drugs.Other make a conscious decision not to use heroin etc. because of any number of reasons.

You are very correct about the ****e regurgitated by the media , the figure reckoned as a rule of thumb regarding developing a heroin is that 1 in every 10 who "try it" develop an addiction.

I think the last figure I've seen is 7 in every 1000 are heroin users.

Sorry? No. However, the book Freakonomics helped to provide some perspective. The research is summarised here: Why Drug Dealers Live With Their Moms:

So if crack dealing is really the most dangerous job in America, and it pays less than minimum wage, why on Earth would anyone take such a job? Well, for the same reason a pretty Wisconsin farm girl moves to Hollywood. For the same reason that a high school quarterback wakes up at 5 a.m. to lift weights.

They all want to succeed in an extremely competitive field in which, if you reach the top, you are paid a fortune (to say nothing of the attendant glory and power). But in each of these glamour professions, the same problem exists: A lot of people are competing in what is essentially a tournament.