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Libra...
I said that because many times people in college, people like you and I, think we are invinceable. They think that if we play it smart, we won't get caught. We're good people. We will be leaders in our society one day. But the bottom line is this....if you sell drugs for any length of time.....you will get caught......regardless of whether or not you played it stupid or smart.
My friend Carly graduated 1st in his class, out of 600+ students. He was 2 semesters away from having his degree in Finance, then he got nailed. The same was for Jason, Omhar, Joe, both Brents and Burnedette. 2 out of all those turned rat and got lighter sentences....2 years...and the other only got probation.
Drugs being illegal causes a problem both for users and non-users.
When I came up here from south-florida I was shocked to see all these kids doing XTC. I went through that $hit in highschool, as did most people who are from South-Florida. The problem began when my buddies saw that these kids up here at UF would pay
30$ for something they could buy in bulk back home for 8$.
When the XTC boom hit UF in 1998,1999 and 2000....kids were going ape shit. Eventually the street price dropped from 30$ a pill in 98' to the 15$ of present date. Greed set in when they saw how much money that were making off of the crapp. I mean think about it......they were selling 5,000 pills of XTC a week in gainesville....bought them for 8$ a piece back home. The 1st year they sold them at 30$ a piece but inorder to keep their buisness profitable, they lowered the price in 99' to 20$ a pill. Needless to say, they were the drug dealers of G-ville and they were making tons of cash. My friend jason bought a house and paid for it in cash. Carly was one of the smart ones and put money away for attorney fees in case they got busted. They ran their buisness for 1 year and 8 months before they got nailed. During the time period it was estimated that they made between 2,000,000 to 3.5,000,000 dollars between the 5 of them.
Now this is how if affected the non-users......
Because of their bust.....the city of Gainesville used their case for the call to arms inorder to keep it's city safe from drugs and "Late night dance parties"....... So what did they do? They made all the downtown buisnesses shut their doors at 2:00am, killing their buisness. Most kids back then didn't even get ready to go out until 1:00am. It killed the buisness for the clubs and bars. Many owners went under and had to shut down. Some went bankrupt. They ADULTS were now being told when they had to go home as if they were children.
Now: what did it do to the non-users who weren't buisness owners.......
The closing time laws then made it to where there was massive binge drinking in town inorder to squeeze in the last drinks before closing time......causing more deaths...more drunk drivers, more DUIs....kids loosing the chance for a college education because of one mistake, a mistake the city induced by it's reactions to certain situations.
Now binge drinking was occuring at UF
So, what did the brilliant leaders of the city do? They started the party Patrol....costing the people of Gainesville more money in taxes to pay those stupid cops more money to drive around and munch on doughnuts. And who started this crapp to begin with? Look back the begining of this post......the POLICE and drugs not being legal.
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