{"id":3879,"date":"2012-04-25T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:01:27","slug":"the-economics-of-selling-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-selling-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of Selling Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/042512_1456_TheEconomic1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Winkler had the opportunity to sit down with a drug dealer who primarily dealt in marijuana. Highlights from the interview include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The drug dealer holds a legitimate job, but on most weeks he makes about $400. On really good weeks he might make up to $600.<\/li>\n<li>He estimates his hourly wage to be $36.<\/li>\n<li>He got started selling drugs because he realized that as a supplier he would essentially be able to smoke it for free.<\/li>\n<li>Without dealing drugs he would be forced to live paycheck to paycheck. This way he is able to afford luxuries for himself such as foreign beers.<\/li>\n<li>He believes that the risk of him spending time in jail for a first offense is low because he&#8217;s white.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the three part interview, and to find out about supply-and-demand in the drug dealing world, whether he intends to turn his drug business into a franchise or a pyramid scheme, why he might soon keep a lawyer on retainer, and whether or not he is willing to extend his customers credit, among many other topics, click <a href=\"http:\/\/thebillfold.com\/2012\/04\/the-economics-of-a-part-time-drug-dealer\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thebillfold.com\/2012\/04\/the-economics-of-a-part-time-drug-dealer\/\">The Bill Fold<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmarksdoor.com\/mainblog\/2012\/04\/the-economics-of-a-part-time-drug-dealer.html\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Winkler had the opportunity to sit down with a drug dealer who primarily dealt in marijuana. Highlights from the interview include: The drug dealer holds a legitimate job, but on most weeks he makes about $400. On really good weeks he might make up to $600. He estimates his hourly wage to be $36. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/042512_1456_TheEconomic1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}