How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #12

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And it was hard

not to give them it,

because I knew I could make

50 dollars just like that.

The day I ate LSD,

the next day I sold LSD.

The day I did cocaine,

the next day I sold cocaine.

The day I shot drugs,

I was selling dope.

I never meant to get

in the dope business.

That wasn't my plan.

But it just started that way.

Eventually I would make my way

to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting

and a kid was reading "What is an addict"

and it said very simply,

"An addict is a man or a woman

whose life is controlled by drugs,

"in one form or another,

the getting and using,

"and finding ways and means

to get more."

And I heard that, and a

light went on in my head.

I knew I was an addict

for the first time in my life.

When people asked me,

"What's wrong with you?"

"I'm an addict".

Coming off of everything, I literally was

up 24 hours a day for 3 weeks straight.

And I mean, not sleeping, not even

nodding off for a f***ing minute.

Like I was literally just up,

looking at the TV.

I had to regain motor skills,

I had to regain talking skills.

It's been a learning process,

like, it's been... I'm growing.

I just couldn't believe that

anybody could be naturally happy

or naturally function or be enjoying life

in general without being on something.

So I would say to anybody

it does get better, you know.

It just, it does.

Marshall Mathers, Mike Walzman,

Brian O'Dea, and Bobby Carlton

would take years in and out of treatment

programs before they finally got sober.

And this is normal.

Addiction is still a modern mystery.

Rehabilitation programs are underfunded,

and often unavailable,

except for the very rich.

But in promoting a culture of

addiction and substance abuse,

drug cartels have an even more powerful

ally than the pharmaceutical industry.

The number one

gateway drug in the world.

Yeah, it's the worst

drug on the planet.

95% of the violent offenses ever

committed by anyone locked up in prison

was done so under its influence.

And as any addict will tell you,

the quickest way to relapse

is compromising your judgment

and willpower with alcohol.

With legal drug companies

promoting drug use,

it would seem almost impossible to

fight the monster of addiction.

But there's one industry that's

mastered the art of drug dealing,

and they know the secret approach that could

threaten the entire addiction market.

I'm Patrick Reynolds. My grandfather founded the R.J.

Reynolds Tobacco Company.

My only memories of my dad were

of a man dying from smoking.

Tobacco is killing more than a

combined total of all the murders,

all the drugs, all the suicides,

and all car accidents combined.

Throw AIDS in, tobacco is

killing more than the total.

If tobacco were banned tomorrow,

and the DEA was going to

come after you for smoking,

the first thing it would do is it

would make it really cool to kids.

We'd have a black market tobacco,

there would be tobacco probably

manufactured in Mexico,

or some other country and imported...

They'd find their way.

We know what works

for fighting tobacco.

Smoking bans in public places,

high tobacco taxes, secession

programs, education,

and banning tobacco advertising.

What would happen

if we used the same approach

Patrick Reynolds described

succeeding with cigarettes

and applied that to all drugs?

That approach was tried in Portugal,

which had a huge drug problem,

and the effort crashed the black market.

NBC sent reporters to study the drop in

addiction and abuse rates among teens.

So have you ever used hashish?

No, never.

Why not? It's bad for us.

Portuguese Prime Minister

Jose Socrates

was one of the architects

of the new policy,

has some advice

for the rest of us.

I think the strategy can work

in any country,

you just need to rid yourself

of prejudice and take an

intelligent approach.

Even America's current

drug czar admits

that law enforcement

isn't the answer to drugs.

If you read the research, you

clearly and quickly come to realize

that addiction is a desease.

I think for too long we probably

thought we could either

arrest our way out of the problem,

or solve it through some

criminal justice lens,

and I think we know from past

history that is not the case.

Critics call the war on drugs

the single greatest public policy

failure of the last 50 years.

The DEA don't want

the drug problem to stop.

District attorneys don't want

the problem to stop.

Prisons don't want the drug problem to stop.

They're pushing it on.

The only person who's

paying is the taxpayers.

Freeway Rick Ross and Brian O'Dea

continue to give inspirational speeches

on the dangers of addiction and

the failures of prohibition.

I was sentenced to 10 years.

Within an hour and a half,

I met guys in there who were

doing 75 years for pot.

One of these guys

has since died in prison.

And the other guys are

gonna die in prison.

But I got the government selling me

cigarettes in there for 50 cents a pack.

Don't make sense, does it?

Didn't to me. Didn't to me.

Bobby Carlton,

now clean for over a decade,

runs a sober living house

in Los Angeles,

and helps other addicts get clean.

You know, it's just the money is so stupid

that everybody's a part of the problem,

Big John now works as a union electrician

and earns over six figures a year.

He and Skipp Townsend volunteer

as community activists

and gang intervention specialists

in Southern California.

I understand that I can't do any

better unless I know better.

And so for the most part when

individuals ask me for a job,

I understand that nine out of ten,

they are not even ready to get a job.

It's just what they're sayin'. But they're

gonna revert back to what comes easiest.

The current takes the path

of least resistance.

So, what's the easiest, what's

the easiest path? That's drugs.

After a friend of his was

killed by one of the cartels,

Pepe left the game.

For the time being.

Right now I'm a painter.

A simple painter.

And this... I enjoy my life right now,

I'm fine. But I know the way to make it.

If one day I need to, I will go.

Barry Cooper,

after constant arrests

and raids on his family's home,

is now seeking political asylum

outside the United States where

he continues to dedicate his life

vending the US drug war.

I'm not going to use our energy to try and

change the minds of the old Americans

that made the laws and expect

us to live under those laws.

I'm going to use our energy to rally

the masses who already get it.

And Neill Franklin, after 30

years fighting the war on drugs,

is now the executive

director of LEAP,

an organization of law enforcement

who are demanding an end

to the drug war.

It wasn't until after his retirement

that Neill Franklin chose to speak out.

What I have here is referred to as,

in law enforcement, as a shadow box.

And it basically contains the law

enforcement officer's career.

And in my retirement celebration,

this was presented to me

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