Having lived in the dirt poor South for over five years in the early 2000’s and smoked weed the entire time:
This is not just what the media presents.
The number of whacked out sketchy fucking freaks I had to associate with when weed was illegal was too god damned high.
When I was just trying to score some pot once and a methed out freak busts open the front door to yell at my dealer “We caught the neighbors cat” only for my dealer to decide it was high time to ignore that I had money for weed and instead took it upon himself to go outside, take his toddler with him, and sic his pit bull on the cat until it caught the cat and tore it to shreds.
Yes, the inside of his trailer was a fucking shithole.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe it has more to do with the spot in the chain and what they’re slinging?
As far as I know the dude supplied a lot of hard drugs and had local “mafia” connection, it’s also a larger city at a mil+.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s this and just that people from all walks of life use drugs.
Rich people will have rich drug dealers and poor people will have poor drug dealers. It’s not any more complicated than that.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That makes sense, but the media doesn’t want to glorify the good side of making money off of it, so they don’t show that side.
Both sides exist, but one is shown vastly more on the media than the others.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I mean, sort of? The entire show Weeds was about an affluent, classy woman selling weed, and that show is pretty old by now.