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Drugs and The Ramifications of the Economics

time traveler

time traveler

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Drugs and money.

So while you got your thinking caps on. Where exactly does all this money go ?

Reportedly the global drug trade is worth ~ half a Trillion dolllars per year.......

Where does it go ? Have a good think about that for me.

You elect your representitives to debate how we can best spend millions and billions of dollars

But have you ever considered for a brief moement certain people, certain establishments could have access to a trillion dollars every two years. Even worse still, this money is accountable to no one.

Thanks for listening.
 
The money goes to the high up people and lets them live the fucking high life. There are many who get a slice of the action but there are the kingpins who really get the bulk of the profit.
 
The DEA are oft to claim 'terrorists';

and to some extent that's probably true, expecially with heroin and cocaine in the US.
 
The money works it way slowy back up to the kingpings of the industry. These are the one's that feed some of the industry that supports high rollers. Expensive Restaurants, Real-estate, Recreation Boating, BMW dealers etc.

Now the people that live between the run of the mill street dealer, and the kingpings, they most likely go out alot more, so the clubs/pub owners see more money. And so do places such as the good guys/harvey norman, as they consume and want a kick arse home entertainment system.

And with the low end dealers, the money they make just goes to paying rent, and livivng expensives and funding there own drug endevours.

So i'd say about at least 20-30% filters it way to the top. And the rest just goes into the general economy as cash.

Drugs, keeping the recession at bay.
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Im sorry but im afraid all of you guys are on drugs.

A few king pins living the highlife ?

You have obviously failed to grasp the magnitude of the situation.

Even with the most wretched excess, one would have a hard time spending a thousand million dollars in a year (1 billion).

As i said. Every 2 years the world illegal drug market brings in 1000 billion dollars.

Where does it go ?
 
The majority of it back into the economy as for many people drugs are their income. Just like the profits for the banks, back into the economy some of it. maybe
 
my mate is the local dealer, he makes about 3-5Thousand AUD a week, profit. most of it he blows on the weekends. clubs, pubs, hotels etc.
 
Clearly your mate is to drug riddled to not piss that amount of cash against the wall.

You would think will all the risk associated, you would want to have all the cash you made hidden/stored/laundered for times after you get done by leo.
 
Timetraveler how many people do you think that money is shared between? Millions, everyone with any involvement is getting a slice of that pie obviously some are getting a very small slice while others get a sizeable slice but while its a lot of money its shared between a lot of people.

Also kingpins are few and far between but across the whole world there are quite a number of them, there is probably a few in every major city in the whole fucking world. I don't know what that adds up to but assuming they are all making millions of dollars that alone probably accounts for a very large percentage of that money.

Ketakink your mate/dealer sounds quite foolish, if I were to be involved in such things I would be squirelling cash away.
 
dont see why he has to. he has a full time job and makes a good living. the drugs is just something he does to make some extra cash to spend like a fool.

we're not complaining. we party every weekend and instead of all going home in the mornings, we have a sweet as hotel room to all go back to with no shortage of mdma or k.
 
Maybe because if he gets busted selling 3-5 grand worth of drug he might just lose that full time job thats making him a good living. Shit don't last forever.
 
Doctor War said:
The DEA are oft to claim 'terrorists';

and to some extent that's probably true, expecially with heroin and cocaine in the US.
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In the case of heroin in Afghanistan there is more than a little speculation floating about that very little of the proceeds actually go to the taliban and that the current government pockets a considerably larger slice of the pie. It's no secret that opium production there has skyrocketed since October '01.

But you're right, if you believe the DEA it's all funding terrorists right? Not like the CIA has ever been implicated with drug money right? 8)
 
drug_mentor said:
Timetraveler how many people do you think that money is shared between? Millions, everyone with any involvement is getting a slice of that pie obviously some are getting a very small slice while others get a sizeable slice but while its a lot of money its shared between a lot of people.

Also kingpins are few and far between but across the whole world there are quite a number of them, there is probably a few in every major city in the whole fucking world. I don't know what that adds up to but assuming they are all making millions of dollars that alone probably accounts for a very large percentage of that money.
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Very good answer.
 
drug_mentor said:
Maybe because if he gets busted selling 3-5 grand worth of drug he might just lose that full time job thats making him a good living. Shit don't last forever.
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Im sure thats not an issue when the 3 - 5 grand is way more than he is probably making in his M - F 9 - 5 job.......
 
You know that figure is how much the industry is worth not how much profit it pulls in? Much of that money go's to other dealers and at several points much of the money is put back into the economy. If none of the money went back into the economy then there would be no point in dealing drugs. They do it to buy fast cars, boats and houses.

Its kinda when you hear how a drug bust was worth so many millions and when you divide it by how many pills it works out to be like $50 a pill. Its because there adding in the values of all the middle men along the way.

Unless im miss-informed.

So, what ever money isnt spent on drugs, its spent on everything else money would normally be spent on. Cars, boats, girls, guns, food, toys etc.
 
time traveler said:
Im sorry but im afraid all of you guys are on drugs.

A few king pins living the highlife ?

You have obviously failed to grasp the magnitude of the situation.

Even with the most wretched excess, one would have a hard time spending a thousand million dollars in a year (1 billion).

As i said. Every 2 years the world illegal drug market brings in 1000 billion dollars.

Where does it go ?
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There are ~195 countries in the world
Thats ~195 kingpins per country, and for some there would be a lot more than two.
Then you go down to kingpins in states, territories, provinces etc. And then on to cities.

That's a fair few people to share that money with. Not that I'd be complaining.
 
Porn. lots & lots of porn.

And anything else you can think of, really.

Swiss bank accounts, elaborate holes in the ground out in bum fuck nowhere, waiting to be collected upon the completion of certain jail terms.

Dealers, strippers, celebs & execs keep this economy running, single-handedly.
 
i had a fun debate with a non drug user friend

It was about the $900 stim pack that we all got from kevin rudd. He was claiming that if i was to spend that money on weed, the money wouldnt be going back into the economy like it was suppose to.

However i felt my friend was very ignorent. The money i spend on drugs goes to a dealer, who would spend that money on a number of things.
1) More drugs to sell
2) Food for his family (drug dealers need food too lol)
3) Bills, rent and anything house related
4) goods and services.

With that in mind, a fair bit of the money we give to the dealers must eventually make its way out of the black market and into the legal economy, the difference being that any money left over in the dealers savings is completly tax free, a pretty sweet deal if you feel like taking the risk!
 
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