'How To Make Money Selling Drugs': Would You Sell Dope if Legalized?

by Fef Posted 2012/08/06 21:08:52

Related Topics: Drugs, Legalizing Drugs, How to Make Money Selling Drugs, Breaking Bad

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"How To Make Money Selling Drugs" documents the drug war and features Woody Harrelson, Adrian Grenier, 50 Cent, and Eminem. The documentary, written and directed by Matthew Cooke, talks about the broken dream in America and how selling drugs provides a 'get rich quick' scheme for many.

The AMC series "Breaking Bad" features a chemistry teacher that turns to selling illegal drugs (methamphetamine) to support his family when he gets diagnosed with terminal cancer. The character, Walter White, encounters extreme difficulties with the law and organized crime to make and sell the drugs. However, if legalized, Mr. White could make a lot of money as an elite chemist without the inherent dangers in trafficking narcotics.

Below is the trailer from the documentary "How To Make Money Selling Drugs." Do you think you would sell drugs if it were legal?

THEAGITATOR.COM reports:
I helped out a bit with this movie. I also give some commentary for about 20 seconds of it. It's a really creative way to look at the drug war.

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Savior 2012/08/06 22:06:01

Yes

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They're called pharmacists
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miz may 2012/08/07 14:14:50

No

Whats the point of selling it when its already legal?? They can get it themselves now.

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foobar 2012/08/07 14:14:32

No

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If they were legal there would be nothing more wrong about selling drugs than selling anything that can potentially be abused and therefore hurt people. You could just as easily condemn a grocer. I suppose each person has his/her own threshold...for everything.

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Southernlady 2012/08/07 14:10:40

No

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Drugs destroy llives and homes. God is the only way.

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Runaway to Souther... 2012/08/07 14:29:53

You have citations for that? Automobiles destroy more lives and homes than drugs do. All day, every day, in every city in America, a life is ended with an automobile. Drugs? Phhtttt - drugs come in a very distant also-ran.

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NATALIE... to Souther... 2012/08/07 15:21:21

So does alcohol. Alcohol is just as bad as drugs.

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BlueMax372 2012/08/07 14:02:19

No

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If it were legal, the profit would dry up.

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intolerantrwj 2012/08/07 14:02:02

No

..... but then again, if I could sell to and ruin the lives of a select few, I might consider it.

Do Harry + Nancy have grandchildren ?

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Hawkeye to intoler... 2012/08/07 17:14:18

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They're called Orcs.. ROFLMAO..

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sglmom 2012/08/07 13:49:32

No

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1. There are Licensed Pharmacists ..
(Taxed, Regulated, Licensed .. Insured/Bonded .. )

2. NO .. just NO .. (I would not do that at all)

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Aleksandr 2012/08/07 13:46:24

No

Lol Mr white is my son physics teacher.

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BIG BAD JOHN R. 2012/08/07 13:44:39

No

Not my style

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joshua ben-ami 2012/08/07 13:43:56

No

Seriously with all the licensing and documentation the government would require, not to mention the tax rates, where would the profits be???

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Hawkeye 2012/08/07 13:35:57

No

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It is MY opinion that most of the problems in our nation today stem from drug use and I INCLUDE the VAST overprescrition of "Legal" drugs as well..

WE have become a nation of Zombies while our Leaders on BOTH sides do anything they want..

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RandyScott 2012/08/07 13:35:48

No

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Legal or not I would not sell something as harmful as drugs.

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David 2012/08/07 13:35:29 (edited)

No

That's not my line of work, but pharmacists are the one who sell legalized drugs!

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Sterling 2012/08/07 13:21:34

No

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Probably not.

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CrazyDeen0 2012/08/07 13:07:20 (edited)

No

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If they were legal you wouldn't make any money. Why would someone buy them from you, when you can just go down to the store and get them? Making something illegal creates a black market, or a natural free market underground which drives prices up because of availability.

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Sterling to CrazyDeen0 2012/08/07 13:21:09

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Hamburgers are legal, McDonalds made a lot of money selling a legal substance.

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DotLyn to Sterling 2012/08/07 14:14:40

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That's just stupid!

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Mickey V to DotLyn 2012/08/07 14:23:20

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No; that is one of the most intelligent comments I have seen.

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CrazyDeen0 to Sterling 2012/08/07 14:48:52

So do you think you would make a lot of money selling McDonald's hamburgers and competing with McDonalds?

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Sterling to CrazyDeen0 2012/08/07 15:30:34

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I would start small so I couldn't afford McDonald's sales model, but I would sell higher quality burgers for more money, and yes I COULD make money; would I make money is the real question.

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CrazyDeen0 to Sterling 2012/08/07 15:41:04

It wouldn't be worth the hassle to compete with a big company, what makes illegal drugs that have been legalized any different? THe big Pharma companies, and or tobacco companies would dominate the market and there wouldn't be really much room for competition. The price would be cheaper as the availability would be greater. That was my point to begin wiith.

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Sterling to CrazyDeen0 2012/08/07 15:54:09

That's the same with any business. Yet walmart came from nothing, mcdonalds came from nothing, sears came from nothing, Microsoft came from nothing (see a pattern?). Also many of these people arose when there were supposedly indomitable monopolies controlling their market (who's names few people would remember).

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CrazyDeen0 to Sterling 2012/08/07 16:00:01

Not that I don't agree, but it is definitley not as easy as you are making it sound. I work for one of the biggest companies in the U.S. for the product we sell, and they came from nothing, but their product wasn't illegal ever, neither were hamburgers or computers or clothes, so I don't see a pattern relating to this subject. I guess to better explain my point.. which way would make you more money. Selling drugs illegaly or legally?

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Sterling to CrazyDeen0 2012/08/07 21:25:45 (edited)

A single person might make more money selling drugs illegally, but they are also likely to go to jail, and people buy less of a substance when it is illegal and expensive.

Budweiser.

*Edit* I don't want to make it sound easy, it's never easy to make a lot of money doing something, but it is ALWAYS possible.

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CrazyDeen0 to Sterling 2012/08/13 14:32:45

Less of a substance being illegal and in a natural free market which it is, drives the prices up, which means even if you don't sell much of it, it still makes you more money.

I agree it is possible, but being legal means it will be regulated and taxed, and would make it much much more difficult to make any money off it.

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Sterling to CrazyDeen0 2012/08/13 17:58:32

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Each has its benefits. Sure you may make a lot selling drugs now, but its also really dangerous. It will be safer if its legal and perhaps more difficult.

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CrazyDeen0 to Sterling 2012/08/13 20:38:26

Agreed

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Nekosarethebest 2012/08/07 12:27:27 (edited)

No

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That would be bad! In a way... I don't think anyone under the smoking age should be selling it...

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Vieuphoria 2012/08/07 12:19:38

Yes

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Depends. Maybe a bit of weed here and there to make a bit of money for my studies.

I'd definitely buy it though.

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Welshtaff 2012/08/07 12:16:17

No

Let them legalized drug sales on condition that they also must carry an insurance policy to cover any injury or death caused by a driver under the influence of drugs.
They also must be personally responsible for any cost over and above any care that the insurance will not cover.
There must also be away of logging the sale from the seller to the purchaser, verified with a thumb print and a national data base.
This would at least keep the general public (non drug user) at an advantage.

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Vieuphoria to Welshtaff 2012/08/07 12:21:13

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DO we do this with alcohol?

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Jeff Smith to Welshtaff 2012/08/07 12:23:23

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Why does big pharma have liability insurance. Nope just like any drug it will come with a warning label same as alcohol . How drugs or alcohol are used and when are up to the consumer and the consumers responsibility

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Runaway to Welshtaff 2012/08/07 14:32:24

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That's totally asinine. You really want the cops in every aspect of your life? Good grief . . .

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Beate Zuernt 2012/08/07 12:14:52

No

Im no smoker. If I would have money I could buy drugs at every street corner.

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Jiorgia 2012/08/07 11:13:10

Yes

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if it was my job to, like if i worked at a pharmacy.
there would be no point to selling it on the street if it were legal.

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Anonymouse BN-0 ~bibbityboo~ 2012/08/07 09:54:26

No

Only if it was in a shop.

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Cunning Stunts 2012/08/07 09:41:03

Yes

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Would make my life less secretive than now.

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Benggo 2012/08/07 09:34:45

No

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Drugs are the cause of many crimes,people committing crimes to fund their habit.
Whilst without a doubt some people become addicted to prescribed drugs many many more are addicted to illegal drugs,if it became legal to sell illegal drugs the problem would just become worse.

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