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Did you ever have a friendship with your pot dealer?
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funeralopolis93
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These days I only buy bud from people that are my friends %)
Yes, Actually my dealer is my best friend. Lucky me right? =P Iv'e also had other dealers that wanted to hang out but it did feel awkward to me, But i do have a type of social anxiety. But i have noticed that weed dealers are usually more friendly. Maybe they care about a little more than your money.
Have I been friends with dealers? sure. Back in the day a few close friends sold at small amounts. Also became friends with people who pushed while on tours with various jambands. This was back in the day though. Everybody has moved on and matured.
weekend addiction
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I always try to buy from friends.
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bennyZA
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I just realized this thread is totally dependent on how much weed we're talking about.
If you're buying off a guy who sells an oz a week, I really hope he's your friend. Then again, if you're exchanging 10k or more, it's actually better for your business if your clients aren't your close friends. There are other ways to get your friend a wholesale break on weight. I remember seeing the guys who we're just in the right place at the right time that would become one of the "top guys." I'd see them make so many totally rookie mistakes that it was hard for people to not take advantage of them.... I never did this, ever, but when you're in college and you haven't had more than 100 in your account in 4 years and you see a guy that's a friend with stacks of 20's falling out of pockets and is constantly misplacing their money and weed and all sorts of stupid shit. I those cases - and I swear I never did this - friends would use their trust to "take advantage" of their dealing "friends." This what happens when rich white kids at a stoner school in a college town get a bunch of weed I the mail for awhile...
All subsequent posts in this thread should talk about avg. amount moved with said dealer
If you're buying off a guy who sells an oz a week, I really hope he's your friend. Then again, if you're exchanging 10k or more, it's actually better for your business if your clients aren't your close friends. There are other ways to get your friend a wholesale break on weight. I remember seeing the guys who we're just in the right place at the right time that would become one of the "top guys." I'd see them make so many totally rookie mistakes that it was hard for people to not take advantage of them.... I never did this, ever, but when you're in college and you haven't had more than 100 in your account in 4 years and you see a guy that's a friend with stacks of 20's falling out of pockets and is constantly misplacing their money and weed and all sorts of stupid shit. I those cases - and I swear I never did this - friends would use their trust to "take advantage" of their dealing "friends." This what happens when rich white kids at a stoner school in a college town get a bunch of weed I the mail for awhile...
All subsequent posts in this thread should talk about avg. amount moved with said dealer
GonzoOp
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Every Dealer I've ever bought from always has been a friend that I've known for atleast a month or two just so I know that they aint a rat or a back stabber and so that they know I aint a rat either. My regular guy is more like a father to me, and always has helped me out with shit especially when I was ill and went to rehab for opiate addiction. He has always looked out for me and im grateful for that, in a world that can be full of traitors its a great feeling to find new friends you can smoke with and trust, my new neighbour is like this, really good lad and we just chill playin GTA V smoking on some Callie Bud.
Constantly misplacing money? Well come on over, I have a sweet personal safe that I'll let you use for an 8th a month....
Need a ride to off some buddha? Well come on over, I have a sweet car that'll take you where you need to go as long as we hit a J or two on the way...
Re-up? Yeah, we can do that, I'm gonna need a quarter for the trouble, though....
That was always my preferred way of "taking advantage" of my friends that sold in college. Shit, man, I swear I was smoking free more days than I wasn't back then. Good times, good times...
Ahhh.... not true, my friend, not true. When it comes to weed-for-personal-use I'd agree with you, but a lot of the more lucrative, "harder
drug" dealers, in my experience, prefer not to mingle with their clientele. They just want your money, fuck a friendship.
bennyZA
Bluelighter
Where I went to college, people were so trusting and there was so little crime that these rookie dealers wouldn't learn how to be a drug dealer first. That's all well and good when you're selling grams or oz's, but when you start moving weight, drug dealing is drug dealing. Anything where large amounts of money is exchanged is going to be sketchy. I remember one dude who made a deal with his buddy for like $1600, and went to the bathroom. When he came back his money was gone and he assumed he lost it. I remember another dude that fronted his friend thousands of dollars of weed right before the kid was about to travel the world... You really thought someone leaving the continent and needed money would pay you back? I think the dude fronted the kid $5000 worth of weed too. Another kid I knew thought it was a brilliant idea to leave money at his friends house so he wouldn't get robbed... not kidding. Didn't even his count his money till the re-up.
These rich, white, suburban kids who never seen a crime in their life would have some friend in CA start sending them something. A bunch of these kids would also get started so big is cause they'd get fronted, that's how relaxed this place was.
These kids would also end up smoking everyone out, all the time. That's a given.
This thread makes me miss my college years. 
I've been thinking about going back. My degree is useless (in my hands, at least). I was pretty foolish in selecting a major and even moreso in actually following through for 4 years on it.
Eh, 20/20 vision in hindsight...
I've been thinking about going back. My degree is useless (in my hands, at least). I was pretty foolish in selecting a major and even moreso in actually following through for 4 years on it.
Eh, 20/20 vision in hindsight...
rave_itsrealfun!!!
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I used to think that my degree was useless, and had been total waste of hard effort, money, and time. But then, I realized that smoking weed every day had fucked my brain and turned me into a lazy, demotivated, and highly addicted vegetable with a really bad attitude, and that if I stopped smoking it completely, I would suddenly find the drive to seek out and apply to enough available job openings to ensure that I would soon find work. I would suddenly not be an anxious wreck in interviews; in hindsight, I wasn't applying for jobs as a stoner because I knew what an anxious loser with a total lack of self esteem I would come across as in the interviews, and even if I got hired I would be too irresponsible of a hardcore dope fiend to achieve success so there wasn't any point. Although I have been living in and out of relapses for quite some time, I always find it easy to find work soon after I quit smoking that shit.
My degree is worthless with my documented drug history.
It would've been a valuable asset had I been eligible to join the military as per my plan upon graduation but, again, my documented drug history kind of fucked me over on that (or I fucked myself over with that, however you want to look at it.) Didn't stop the recruiter I was speaking with from stringing me along for a year and a half before I graduated but it is what is-- I just have to find a way to work with what I've got.
I've got work, by the way, though it's two part-time positions within UPS. My goal right now is to win a bid to become a full-time driver for the company and I should be set for as long as it takes for package delivery drivers to become obsolete in our increasingly automated world. That's Plan A, but I'm still working on some backup plans in the likely event that it takes longer than I would prefer to catch that promotion.
bennyZA
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What's with this personal vendetta? Every thread has some sorta rant. Lot's of people who don't smoke weed have issues with getting jobs that their diploma would indicate they should get. There are also plenty of people with those jobs that smoke copious amounts of ganja. Your experience with your life being destroyed by weed does not apply to everyone, probably doesn't apply to most people. I would say drug abuse in general will affect your life negatively, but to single out weed and make it sound like heroin is pretty extreme.
omnipresenthuman
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My answer to the OP is hell yea I've been friends with weed dealers - it depends on who you're dealing with though. I have three levels of weed dealers, low, mid, and high.
Low level is 8ths, quarters and, sometimes, ounces. Mid level is quarter pounds, half pounds, and, usually less frequently, pounds. High level is dealing with kilos and pounds on a daily, or at least near-daily, basis, with the sky being the limit at that point - how many pounds they move in a month is a good benchmark of just how high up they are.
Basically, the lower level dealers are usually the most genuine in my book, because they're either dealing strictly for extra cash or just to smoke more themselves - with that being said though, I've never become close friends with one of these types, because, well, let's face it, they are, in a way, 'expendable', because these guys come and they go all the time - I mean, they usually don't make much more than the dude flipping burgers at McDonald's, and that's only if they save up their money. (Although, if they are really smart, and deal to enough people, they can still make a lot, don't get me wrong - plus, their money isn't being taxed).
Then, of course, you have mid level dealers - these guys funnel weed reliably to lower level dealers and also will bust down product themselves, down into quarters and eighths, to make more profit than they would from strictly 'wholesaling', albeit on a lower scale than people higher up on the weed food chain. In my opinion, these are the people who you really, really want to get close with if you get lucky enough to know a few. First off, unlike the lower level dealers, their shelf life is usually a few years, if not much, much more (I'm talking anywhere from 5-10 years on the low end...10-20+ if they can continue to stay in the game and if they haven't transformed into a huge dealer at some point) if they're smart. In other words, they are actually worth the time to talk to because they're not planning on going anywhere soon - they have to be available 365, 24/7, if they want to be any good, similar to the lower level dealers they deal to, except that they are often making much more money and are thus better off. I'm friends with a few of this type - one's a girl who I can chop it up with and who smokes me out even when I just buy a gram off her, and the other one's some dude who has a corporate job on the side and who can tell me about his business life in addition to moving weed (in considerable amounts) just to make extra money. This leads me into my second point about mid-level dealers - even if weed is their 'everything', as in, their only source of income, since they are 'only' mid-level in the supply chain of weed dealers, they usually have pretty cool lives outside of dealing - dealing just acts as a reliable source of funds for them to allow them to do whatever the fuck they want to. This is in contrast to lower level dealers, who are probably either in college or just trying to deal with life in general. You won't hear about any of this life-searching bullshit from mid-level dealers. Then again, I don't have anything against lower level dealers, because, obviously, without them, a ton of weed would never get out into the wider market, but yea, I'm just trying to make a point of comparison here.
As for the people at the top of the weed food chain, I've never had to meet one in person, because I've never had to, fortunately, but I've heard plenty from my mid-level dealers - basically, any notion or idea of friendship goes out the window when you're talking to top weed dealers. Courtesy and punctuality are of course necessary, but unless they're family, blood or otherwise, to you, or something alone those lines, these are essentially just business acquaintances. Also, they're likely involved pretty heavy into gang activity or street life in general, whatever you want to call it - the higher you get, the more protection you need around you. (Of course, I am generalizing somewhat, but this is definitely true in the area that I live - even if they are not directly involved in the gangster lifestyle, I'd bet money they have very close connections to the street if they make it to the top, or near the top, of the weed food chain wherever you live at). If you don't want to be involved with this type of stuff and lifestyle, then just don't - go to mid or low level dealers - they might still be 'involved' with gangs, but at least this kind of talk shouldn't crop up regularly because you're not going to be talking about the really large amounts. Top weed dealers are businessmen, plain and simple - be ready to deal with that.
Also, as a final note - despite what I said about not needing to be an out-and-out 'friend' to low level weed dealers, which most are, you should still be nice to them and understand that they're taking a lot of risks without too much reward, especially at the lower levels, by dealing weed to you. If you're buying from them, whoever they are, that means that you want what they have and you should treat them the same way you would treat the person working at your local CVS/Walgreen's pharmacy - with courtesy and respect. Besides, if you're nice to a dealer at any level, if you're lucky, you can get smoked out. And that's always a perk.
Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to put my thoughts out there - a cardinal rule of dealing with other people in life is to give what you want to receive - if you're a jerk to a dude/girl who's just trying to sell you weed for god's sakes, and who clearly doesn't rip you off or give you inferior product, you should really think about what you're doing - they can always just ignore your texts/calls and then you might have to go without weed for weeks/months, even years if you don't have any other connections in the area - trust me, it definitely happens. You don't know what you have until it's gone.
Also, I think a lot of people know what Jibult's talking about...he said:
"This thread makes me miss my college years.
I've been thinking about going back. My degree is useless (in my hands, at least). I was pretty foolish in selecting a major and even moreso in actually following through for 4 years on it.
Eh, 20/20 vision in hindsight..."
Yea, that just about sums it up for me too, lol. Even low level weed dealing can easily just be as lucrative as most entry-level-position jobs in this crippled economy...of course, it depends on how long you've been in the game and how many contacts you've been able to build up...but yea, that is definitely the greatest thing about the weed 'world' in my book - be nice to others in need and they shall return the favor by being nice to you when you are in need, at least for the most part. It doesn't always work out like that, obviously, I mean, shit can get really fucked up if you're not careful, but when it does, awesome things can happen, psychologically and monetarily.
All that being said...there is something very satisfying about having a completely legit job, if only to be able to tell other people in your family about it. If you don't care about that though, then deal weed with vigor because the world is run by money, not love or truthfulness.
I always think the biggest thing that people should understand about weed dealers and customers is just how similar the weed game actually is to legitimate business - consistency and reliability are craved, even flocked to. Good products are awesome too, but the success or failure of most weed ventures depends on your past history in the game and the level of trust people have in you of being able to live up to your underground reputation. Peace everyone - be safe, and be nice to weed dealers! They're just trying to make money without being directly attached to the corporate matrix. In some ways, it's even a noble enterprise, although most people think of dealers as 'scum' or 'low lives' - if that was true, then the CEO's of pharmaceutical companies are pure devils.
Low level is 8ths, quarters and, sometimes, ounces. Mid level is quarter pounds, half pounds, and, usually less frequently, pounds. High level is dealing with kilos and pounds on a daily, or at least near-daily, basis, with the sky being the limit at that point - how many pounds they move in a month is a good benchmark of just how high up they are.
Basically, the lower level dealers are usually the most genuine in my book, because they're either dealing strictly for extra cash or just to smoke more themselves - with that being said though, I've never become close friends with one of these types, because, well, let's face it, they are, in a way, 'expendable', because these guys come and they go all the time - I mean, they usually don't make much more than the dude flipping burgers at McDonald's, and that's only if they save up their money. (Although, if they are really smart, and deal to enough people, they can still make a lot, don't get me wrong - plus, their money isn't being taxed).
Then, of course, you have mid level dealers - these guys funnel weed reliably to lower level dealers and also will bust down product themselves, down into quarters and eighths, to make more profit than they would from strictly 'wholesaling', albeit on a lower scale than people higher up on the weed food chain. In my opinion, these are the people who you really, really want to get close with if you get lucky enough to know a few. First off, unlike the lower level dealers, their shelf life is usually a few years, if not much, much more (I'm talking anywhere from 5-10 years on the low end...10-20+ if they can continue to stay in the game and if they haven't transformed into a huge dealer at some point) if they're smart. In other words, they are actually worth the time to talk to because they're not planning on going anywhere soon - they have to be available 365, 24/7, if they want to be any good, similar to the lower level dealers they deal to, except that they are often making much more money and are thus better off. I'm friends with a few of this type - one's a girl who I can chop it up with and who smokes me out even when I just buy a gram off her, and the other one's some dude who has a corporate job on the side and who can tell me about his business life in addition to moving weed (in considerable amounts) just to make extra money. This leads me into my second point about mid-level dealers - even if weed is their 'everything', as in, their only source of income, since they are 'only' mid-level in the supply chain of weed dealers, they usually have pretty cool lives outside of dealing - dealing just acts as a reliable source of funds for them to allow them to do whatever the fuck they want to. This is in contrast to lower level dealers, who are probably either in college or just trying to deal with life in general. You won't hear about any of this life-searching bullshit from mid-level dealers. Then again, I don't have anything against lower level dealers, because, obviously, without them, a ton of weed would never get out into the wider market, but yea, I'm just trying to make a point of comparison here.
As for the people at the top of the weed food chain, I've never had to meet one in person, because I've never had to, fortunately, but I've heard plenty from my mid-level dealers - basically, any notion or idea of friendship goes out the window when you're talking to top weed dealers. Courtesy and punctuality are of course necessary, but unless they're family, blood or otherwise, to you, or something alone those lines, these are essentially just business acquaintances. Also, they're likely involved pretty heavy into gang activity or street life in general, whatever you want to call it - the higher you get, the more protection you need around you. (Of course, I am generalizing somewhat, but this is definitely true in the area that I live - even if they are not directly involved in the gangster lifestyle, I'd bet money they have very close connections to the street if they make it to the top, or near the top, of the weed food chain wherever you live at). If you don't want to be involved with this type of stuff and lifestyle, then just don't - go to mid or low level dealers - they might still be 'involved' with gangs, but at least this kind of talk shouldn't crop up regularly because you're not going to be talking about the really large amounts. Top weed dealers are businessmen, plain and simple - be ready to deal with that.
Also, as a final note - despite what I said about not needing to be an out-and-out 'friend' to low level weed dealers, which most are, you should still be nice to them and understand that they're taking a lot of risks without too much reward, especially at the lower levels, by dealing weed to you. If you're buying from them, whoever they are, that means that you want what they have and you should treat them the same way you would treat the person working at your local CVS/Walgreen's pharmacy - with courtesy and respect. Besides, if you're nice to a dealer at any level, if you're lucky, you can get smoked out. And that's always a perk.
Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to put my thoughts out there - a cardinal rule of dealing with other people in life is to give what you want to receive - if you're a jerk to a dude/girl who's just trying to sell you weed for god's sakes, and who clearly doesn't rip you off or give you inferior product, you should really think about what you're doing - they can always just ignore your texts/calls and then you might have to go without weed for weeks/months, even years if you don't have any other connections in the area - trust me, it definitely happens. You don't know what you have until it's gone.
Also, I think a lot of people know what Jibult's talking about...he said:
"This thread makes me miss my college years.
I've been thinking about going back. My degree is useless (in my hands, at least). I was pretty foolish in selecting a major and even moreso in actually following through for 4 years on it.
Eh, 20/20 vision in hindsight..."
Yea, that just about sums it up for me too, lol. Even low level weed dealing can easily just be as lucrative as most entry-level-position jobs in this crippled economy...of course, it depends on how long you've been in the game and how many contacts you've been able to build up...but yea, that is definitely the greatest thing about the weed 'world' in my book - be nice to others in need and they shall return the favor by being nice to you when you are in need, at least for the most part. It doesn't always work out like that, obviously, I mean, shit can get really fucked up if you're not careful, but when it does, awesome things can happen, psychologically and monetarily.
All that being said...there is something very satisfying about having a completely legit job, if only to be able to tell other people in your family about it. If you don't care about that though, then deal weed with vigor because the world is run by money, not love or truthfulness.
I always think the biggest thing that people should understand about weed dealers and customers is just how similar the weed game actually is to legitimate business - consistency and reliability are craved, even flocked to. Good products are awesome too, but the success or failure of most weed ventures depends on your past history in the game and the level of trust people have in you of being able to live up to your underground reputation. Peace everyone - be safe, and be nice to weed dealers! They're just trying to make money without being directly attached to the corporate matrix. In some ways, it's even a noble enterprise, although most people think of dealers as 'scum' or 'low lives' - if that was true, then the CEO's of pharmaceutical companies are pure devils.
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interesting thread!
ive dealt with 3 or 4 small time dealers in my life. i would not call any of them my friends.
all of them were desperate for a true friend though. drug dealers dont have it easy. everyone is super nice to them on a superficial level, but when it comes to hanging out with them for non-business purposes they get rejected.
ive dealt with 3 or 4 small time dealers in my life. i would not call any of them my friends.
all of them were desperate for a true friend though. drug dealers dont have it easy. everyone is super nice to them on a superficial level, but when it comes to hanging out with them for non-business purposes they get rejected.
Lost Ego
Bluelighter
i've had many close friends of mine sell me weed. yes it can be a little bit weird mixing friends with business and i choose not to do it. i take things too personally when they start making a profit off me.
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bluemansland
Greenlighter
Dont incriminate yourself.
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DexWeedAndMe
Bluelighter
I've had a number of dealers who were close friends. Also had a number of dealers who were just that, dealers. I suppose it really all depends on the situation. Come to think of it, I've bought from more people over the years than I can count. Obviously, helping friends out is the way to go. But there are times when circumstances beyond ones control force them to buy from a "dealer" rather than a "friend who deals."
ive fallen for my herbal connection. shes amazingly beautiful, and one of the coolest people i know. and single. im just terrified of ruining the existing connection we have, cuz its the best relationship ive ever had in these regards. still i cant help but want to make her body feel as beautiful as I think it is...
we are good friends, we hang out and talk for hours sometimes when im just there for a brief errand. she smiles constantly the entire time we talk. its so alluring. i think i must be addicted to greens tho cuz i refuse to risk loosing my fav dealer.
we are good friends, we hang out and talk for hours sometimes when im just there for a brief errand. she smiles constantly the entire time we talk. its so alluring. i think i must be addicted to greens tho cuz i refuse to risk loosing my fav dealer.