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by rhizome 3252 days ago
Most drug dealers are not "big organized groups." I don't know from Hansa, but I'm betting a big organized group is not likely to use them as a single point of failure.
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Of course, it wouldn't have been their only market, but it's among them. Even something ostensibly harmless as cannabis can finance quite questionable people and groups.

A while ago Arte France released a series titled "Cannabis", where the plot revolves around a shipment of Morrocan hashish lost on the Mediterranean sea, with the consequences playing out all over Europe. And while it's a fictional plot, it still paints a somewhat accurate picture how a lot of this business goes down.

Of course, it wouldn't have been their only market

That's not how I was using "single point of failure." The failure I was speaking to was identification by law enforcement.

> Most drug dealers are not "big organized groups."

Who do you think provides them with the drugs?

Generally? Slightly bigger drug dealers.

Selling to end users is practically a mug's game, so there is no end to the number of people wanting to act as middlemen to avoid it.