Retail selling

"Street" selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events, or directly from dealers who have purposefully engaged adolescents (typically). Many users sell in order to fund their own drug use. Although most are in it for the monetary outcome, some view narcotics dispensing and consumption as a means of insurrection and orchestrate it for that cacoethes. They refrain from intensive processing and abstain from umpteen 'business' practices. Although most dealers market to a changeless customer base, these mavericks may be overly advertised on hacker/phreaker/drug/etc. forums and between friends and cohorts.

See also

• Recreational drug use
• Drug paraphernalia
• War on Drugs
• Money laundering
• List of famous drug smugglers

External links

• Geopium: Geopolitics of Illicit Drugs in Asia (http://www.geopium.org)
• Centres for Disease Control statistics on U.S. drug use (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/druguse.htm)
• The smuggling culture (http://www.cannabis.net/drugsmuggle/)
• U.S. Government guide to drug street terms (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/default.asp)
• U.S. Government guide to spending on illegal drugs (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/drugfact/american_users_spend/)
• U.S. DOJ history of illegal drug trade (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/deamuseum/museum_illegaldrugs.html) (rather self-serving and biased, represents DEA as triumphant over drugs)
• UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances from 1988, see http://www.incb.org/e/conv/1988/index.htm
• [1] (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/CIAREPORT/contents.html) The CIA and the CONTRAS