[datavirtue]

I've seen quite a few people go out like this. Back in the late 1990's I founded a head shop that later gave birth to multiple locations and had family members and friends getting rich. Lost two family members (dead), can't speak to another one (my father), I ended up arrested as a consequence of my brother's withdrawal symptoms, a business partner went off the deep end smoking crack and meth while leading an entourage of prostitutes and flipping a vehicle or two while ditching his family of twenty years, and my father was doing nearly the same shit while secreting hookers at his elderly mother's house. He ended up in jail on serious drug charges.

This isn't even about half the shit that went down.

So yeah, success and money can really trash lives if people aren't ready or they have underlying issues, but a lot of times you don't see it coming.

Before that we ran a fairly uneventful chain of video rental stores and otherwise led a bog normal and happy middle class life.

[avrionov]

What is a head shop?

[pasttense01]

"A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis and tobacco and items related to cannabis culture and related countercultures." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_shop