How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #3

Synopsis: Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
Director(s): Matthew Cooke
Production: Tribeca Films
  3 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
96 min
$15,285
Website
325 Views


That's how you win.

Sh*t, I'll be damned

if somebody tell me,

"You got us working eight hours

for f***ing $60, $70, man."

That's crazy.

That's too much work.

I just made that sh*t

in a phone call.

The American Dream is

just to have enough money

to be able to do whatever you want

to do, whenever you want to do it,

based on your own hard work.

Sh*t, just what I have on the

counter would probably get me

anywhere from 10 years

to about 15 years.

I'd rather be out here getting

it than not getting it at all,

I've been really trying to free

myself, use the coke to free myself.

As a private cocaine dealer, you'll

be mostly selling Ts and eight balls,

sixteenth or eighth of an ounce little

baggies for up to 150 bucks a pop.

Ramping up to 20

customers a day is easy.

You'll be paying $500 for

your day's worth of cocaine,

and you'll cut it in

half with baby laxative,

which brings your profit to a total of a

grand a day, and you just got started.

Fiends from outside

into your home.

They might bring the police with them,

with the wire taps and everything.

Man, they try to get as close to you as

possible, and you keep them at a distance.

But you got to keep

that friendship with them.

You can't be like, aggressive

with your customers.

You got to treat them fair, you got

to treat them like regular people.

Man, a stash spot

is stashed away, hidden.

Get that sh*t out the house,

keep it out the house.

Don't let nobody come

to the house to buy it.

I wouldn't put my money anywhere

that someone else can control it.

It'd be best to hide that

wherever you put your dope at.

You get about 500,000

or something like that.

Start me a couple businesses, man,

get right up out of this sh*t.

If you decide that you ever

want to pick up this game,

sh*t, pick it up for the right

reason, the money only.

Save from the time that you get it

to the time that you quit, man.

And you won't be in it so long.

If you choose

to be a cocaine dealer,

If you're black, you're about four times as

likely to be arrested than a white dealer,

because white Americans buy and

sell more cocaine than anyone else.

It's the circumstances to where they're

actually setting up to sell the drugs,

See, the black drug dealers

will be in the neighborhoods

where the law enforcement will search

people without very much reasoning.

I mean, my first case,

it was like a fluke.

He, uh, ran where we're at.

I happened to be just standing outside,

and the police say,

"Get up against the fence."

And I'm like, "Man, come on,

why I got to get up against the fence?"

"Shut up."

Next thing you know,

they pulled this

big brick out my pocket.

So, that was the beginning

of the end, right there.

You're not only more

likely to be arrested,

but prosecuted,

with heavy prison time.

The reason that 94.5%

of people incarcerated

under the Rockefeller Drug

Laws are black and brown

is that's the way

the DA's operate.

Business mogul

Russell Simmons spent years

lobbying against the harsh Rockefeller

Drug Laws of New York City,

which treated the non-violent crime

of drug dealing the same as murder.

I mean, imagine you're a model.

You know, a fashion model. You

know, like some blonde girl.

It doesn't matter where you're

from, you're not going to jail.

And if you're some guy

from the hood,

maybe you'll go

to jail for 20 years.

Hell, they tried

to give me 45 years.

So, I did a lot of time. I did, like

five years, spring something like that.

And a white drug dealer will be in middle

America, somewhere in the suburbs.

That isn't in a space where he can just be

searched for no reason at all or go to jail.

Curtis Jackson, Russell

Simmons, and many others

have successfully

persuaded New York

to reduce some of their

harsh sentencing practices.

But 90% of those

convicted on drug charges

are still African-American

and Latino.

Like they say for any business,

the golden rule, location,

location, location.

I didn't care if people

knew where I lived.

People would just come to my

house, and I would go outside

and just give them the gram, and we

would do the transaction that way.

In 2003, I was the main coke dealer

for all the private schools in L.A.

If you're gonna be a private coke

dealer, this is the way to go.

In a nice, suburban neighborhood,

selling to the largest

cocaine market directly.

and already knew where to buy

cocaine for him and his friends.

So, he was in a perfect position

to go into business for himself.

What's going on

through my head is,

just start selling drugs

to support my habit

and to support the

lifestyle that I wanted.

People want drugs,

so I can sell drugs.

'Cause I know where

to get it already.

My first rock was about this big,

and I remember

showing my friends this.

They were like, "No f***ing way you have

this big of a rock with you right now,

"like, this is insane."

It was like,

"This is awesome, this is exciting."

The stories that grew out of me being

a coke dealer just went from this

to like, you know, this, and I was

suddenly, you know, the guy...

You know, that everyone's

talking about,

I threw a party at

the L'Ermitage hotel,

and I got, like,

the Penthouse suite.

I've always wanted

to be loved and accepted.

And that's what selling coke gave me.

It gave me that power,

it gave me the feeling

of acceptance.

It was definitely addictive

to be a drug dealer.

Not only the money

that you got from it,

but the way people

talked about you,

the way people looked at you,

the power that I felt from it.

I just liked having money. It gave

me security, it made me feel good.

People don't know what's a

gram, and what's not a gram,

they've never seen

coke before in their life.

The market rate for a gram

was about $50 for coke,

but if you're a rich girl

who didn't know anything,

I would probably sell you

.5 for about $60 to $75.

A guy like Mike makes half as

much as our Detroit dealer,

working half as hard, but with

virtually none of the risk.

The word got out that I have

coke, and I'm selling coke.

The dean in the school,

they pulled me in,

and they said, "Hey look, you know,

we're hearing that you're selling drugs,

"and we want to do a drug test on you."

So, at that point, you

know, I thought to myself,

"Well, I better really slow down on this

and not do it anymore."

Mike failed his drug test,

and was kicked out of school,

but never did any hard time.

When dealing small amounts,

the nicer the neighborhood,

the less chance of getting busted.

it'll still take years to get that

mansion in the hills you want.

To be a big time player,

you need to get committed.

It's time to start

building a business.

Instead of selling ounces,

I started selling keys.

A key is a kilo of cocaine.

A single kilo can run

you about $20,000.

I had what I believe was skills.

This is Skipp. He did really

well as a corner hustler.

I had the skills to sit on the

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