Yeah street dealers now there's some that might not be like this but the more of a successful ones are the ones that are linked to gangs too.
I've always avoided them as they offer more risk than I care to be exposed to. I always bought drugs from a dealer that dealt from their home, not on the street. So I really don't have ny opinions other than that.
If you accept the worldview of The Wire, lots of these kids don't really have a choice. But the dealers I used were grown up and taken a conscious choice to be a societal scourge.
But buying drugs on the street always seemed a really bad idea to me. It also makes me pretty sad that a bunch of urban yutes cannot walk down the street of their neighborhood without a bunch of suburban white kids asking them if they sell drugs. That would blow.
But here are my "risk factors" in descending order.
- inherent violence risk - catching a bullet
- drug risk; poor quality
- cop risk,; I stick out like a sore thumb
