The Causes and Effects of Drug Selling

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Red and Blue lights flashing, a loud siren whaling, people scattering away to get away from the flashing lights, like a dog chasing away a herd of cattle. This is the stereotypical life of a drug dealer. This is what drug dealers so call "work". Work meaning a job where money is made selling drugs to whoever chooses to buy their products. It is hard to differentiate which is worse, the causes or effects of selling drugs.

The causes of selling drugs are the desperate need for money in most cases. They think they can get rich overnight and that will solve their problems. Most of the "ghetto" drug dealers happen to grow up in that type environment all their life and they tend to pick it up. Selling is believed by the drug dealers as the easiest and quickest way to make money. It has become a trend for some people.

Selling may be easy and fast, but it carries many consequences in return.

The grave effects of selling drugs is being killed in Drug War battles of drug dealers, sometimes innocent by-standards can be harmed. It may also harm the drug dealers themselves. If they get caught in possession of the drug, they will get a maximum of 30 years, depending on how much is in possession and that is a long and hard time to think about what they had done. Drug Dealing can be the addiction and cause addiction to drugs .It may be harder to quit taking the drugs and dealing because you get addicted to the "work" and products, than it is to get started. Most people start off saying "I won't get caught, I know what I'm doing!!", but are always the ones that get caught and they're always the ones in jail...