Very false if you are speaking on dealers in Baltimore City, check the rehab programs across Baltimore City. Young dealers may use oxycontins or even a ecstasy pill but rarely will you see a young guy doing cocaine or heroin. Not in Baltimore City, I was told that it's against the "culture" Your average lookout" is not getting close to the product and if a dealer was to use his own supply, then there would be nothing left to deal. These narcotics are very addictive.
Bull-crap! No one ever said that you will not find heroin or cocaine addicts in Baltimore City. In fact, the ages for these addicts in the inner city can range from middle 30's to 70's unfortunately. The petty crimes like robbery have been committed by addicts and sometimes criminals in the areas or surrounding areas of the robbery, not all addicts condone in robbery but some do.
I have spoken with former and current dealers all over Baltimore City from the top of the food chain to the bottom(inner city streets) and received first hand accounts during seminars and intervention programs from these "hustlers". One young guy from a certain section of east Baltimore informed me that his biggest purchases were from West Virginia and PA. Another former dealer from another side of Baltimore informed that some of his biggest bulk buyers came from Western MD and also from PA. I was informed that in certain areas of the inner city, the detectives (undercovers) are known to pull over white citizens in areas where drug usage is high b/c 8 x out of 10 they are buying in BULK. Downtown Baltimore has a few hot spots where narcotics are purchased by residents of these areas.
So if you thinking that drugs and narcotic use is strictly done by American Black citizens, you know deep down that can not be further from the truth. The higher you climb the trade, the more money you can launder into other arenas and the more money you can feed your lawyer to eat the case if it arrives. This is a pay to play town. I've seen drug KINGPINS literally EAT a case due to lawyers, if the same kid from west or east Baltimore had the charges he would surely be under the jail due to not having the financial backing
(bottom of the trade) for lawyer fees.
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