Drugs dealers

I may be stating the super obvious but: you all notice how modern cop propaganda shows make up a fictional seperation between ‘addicts and drug users’ who are good people who just need some help and ‘drug dealers’ who are all murderous gangsters that want users to get addicted so they can make sweet money?

And this villain stereotype then justifies all kinds of violence against drug dealers? They’re planting the propaganda message: ‘the war on drugs is okay as long as we just target the dealers because they are the true evil’

But like, that binary is fake. A ‘drug dealer’ is often your buddy who took some stuff from his buddy in the big city and shares that with his friends and doesn’t even make any money that way.

Most drug networks are build on friendships because you know your friends would never knowingly give you dangerous shit. So when ‘drugs dealers’ go to jail, that’s often just regular young adults who shared a nice experience with friends.

It’s not that organized drugs dealers willing to use violence to protect thousands of euros of merchendise don’t exist, they do. The way drugs are criminalized means large scale production can only be met by well-organized groups willing to break a lot of laws. That kind of large scale ‘drug dealing’ is product of the criminilazation process.

But more criminalization doesn’t solve any of that and the ‘drug dealers’ cops lock up on a daily basis are more likely to be local kids who shared what they had access to.

And like, of course cop propaganda is gonna obscure all of that.