Drug Dealers

[Watchmacallit]

I've seen what drugs do to people. Yeah, the sellers aren't forcing it on the people but if they didn't sell the people never would of gotten addicted.

 

[Shuswah_Noir]

As long as they aren't committing other crimes in the process, and aren't by nature horrible people, I've got no real problem with them.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I feel about them the same way i feel about belgians, florists and scissorsmiths. Everyone of them is a unique individual and i can't say anything about them as a group.
Some are creepy, violent criminals, some are funny stoners i proudly call my friend.

 

[Liberaliter]

I don't really have an opinion on them. They sell drugs. Make a living. Are a good place to get what you need. Yeah...

 

[catalyst8]

The same way I feel about thieves and liars (2 kinds of people I can't stand).

I have 2 major hates in this world and thats thieves and liars.

I'll add drug dealers to that, reason they are not there already is I don't come across many drug dealers.

They are scum of the earth, a piss stain on the mattress of society.

I love how in your world, coffee causes brain damage.

Cafes, tobacconists, & pubs definitely 'drug-dealers', so of course are pharmacists & hospitals.

Coffee is most definitely a drug, the narcotic* component being the xanthine alkaloid caffeine. I'm confused by TypeSD's implied insistence that a drug necessarily causes brain damage. The legality or illegality of a narcotic has no bearing on the original question. In some countries opiates are or have been legal, & in some alcohol has been or is illegal, but that doesn't alter the nature of the drug, only the drug's method of distribution.

On one hand numerous coffee & coco producing companies have infamous records of creating appalling hardship in many of the sourcing countries. On the other hand a student growing cannabis & selling it to their friends is unlikely to meet anyone's criterion for "scum of the earth". Attempting to simplify the issue into such categorical terms as bad or good is to refuse to engage with it in a meaningful way. The subject is too complex for that.

It can easily be argued that the prohibition of a drug necessitates a black market; that the decriminalization of drugs not only reduces addiction & mortality rates from the drug itself, but also the implied risk of associating with criminals & criminal activity e.g. Portugal's narcotics policy introduced ten years ago has been a huge success in all of these respects.


*OED 2011 definition: 'narcotic' (noun) an addictive drug affecting mood or behaviour, especially an illegal one.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

What do I think of them?

Never get in debt to one, never hang with one that's in debt.

Debt'll get you killed quicker than the drugs.