"The maxim All money ain't good money ain't just words to me. And here's prime proof: During my dunderheaded age of copping several ounces (we called them zips) of crack cocaine at a time, my then plug offered that instead of my regular re-up, I could pool cash with his homeboys who drove to L.A. and bought several kilos (we called them birds) at a time."
"However, that fear failed to keep me from, just a few years later, earning a bid in an Oregon state prison for a DCS (Distribution of a Controlled Substance) when I was arrested with 150 grams of crack and a gun. Call it ironic, maybe, that during my time behind the walls, I heard tell that my former plug and his trafficking homeboys had been caught in a federal drug-conspiracy sting."
"We were all criminals in that we were fordamnsure guilty of selling drugs. Nonetheless, several years later my old plug is a free man who has dedicated his life to working with people who've been involved in the justice system. Several years later I'm a professor and writer who makes a point to speak in prisons and youth facilities as a way to share my fuller story."
A young dealer accepted small-scale crack sales and was later offered to pool cash to buy kilograms in Los Angeles, but declined deeper ties to traffickers. A few years later the dealer was arrested in Oregon with 150 grams of crack and a gun and received a prison sentence. Former associates later were caught in a federal drug-conspiracy sting and received much longer sentences, up to life. The former plug later works with justice-involved people. The former dealer became a professor and writer who speaks in prisons and youth facilities. President Trump posted a picture of captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on Truth Social; no modicum of justice exists for the 107-and-counting people killed.
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