How to Make Money Selling Drugs

For decades, millions of people have come here

in search of the American Dream,

but for many, that dream is quickly disappearing.

Are you unemployed or stuck in a deadend job?

Thousands of people around the state are losing their jobs every day.

Are you homeless, or living in a bad neighbourhood?

Unemployment shot up to its highest level in nearly 26 years.

If the "American Dream" broke its promise to you,

don't worry, we have an answer.

Let me help you help yourself.

I'm gonna give you three and a half grams. You know what to do with this?

'Cause if you know what to do with it, you gonna be all right.

Welcome to the game. This is your guide book.

Our experts are going to give you everything you need.

It's very easy to make a lot of money with cocaine.

You could have a six figure starting salary..

It's hard for me to believe that something that small could be worth so much money.

You can make a million dollars in a week.

In this program, masters of the trade

on how to get paid in this exciting $400 billion global industry.

For the next 90 minutes, we're going to focus on marijuana and cocaine,

but the same lessons work for any illegal substance Americans are willing to buy,

or climb to the very top of the food chain and make billions.

This training guide will show you how to do it.

You want to know how to make money selling drugs?

Name's Bobby Carlton,

I've lived pretty much in every ghetto town,

and my mom had it rough raising us. She had me very young.

A year after I was, uh, born, my brother was born.

Years later, I'd have two sisters.

Stepfather, two sisters, he'd eventually leave,

and then she'd be stuck with four kids.

She'd basically just try to raise a family

and try to earn enough to put food on the table.

I look at people, they got to get up, they got to be in an office,

they got to go to a factory, they got to bang their heads against a wall,

they're trying to earn, earn, earn,

but really, what they're doing is just barely making their payments.

They're working just to get by.

I wanted to make money to go live.

I was always looking up to the bigger kids,

who, people I perceived cool and trying to emulate them.

The guys hanging on the street corner, not working,

they have girls, they have cars, they have money,

they seemingly don't ever have to be anywhere at any certain time.

And I want in. I'm in.

What Bobby Carlton was about to discover

is that marijuana makes money.

More money than tobacco, cotton, even corn.

It's the most profitable farmed product in the country.

I smoked a joint, and then you just get into it.

And then other people want to do it.

Seven joints were in a bag, it's a dollar for a joint,

you pay $5 for that bag.

Okay. I'll buy a bag, break it down,

sell five joints, smoke two myself.

It's kind of innocent, right?

Ninth grade..

but then they were like, "How many grams are in an ounce?"

They were like, "How many pounds are in a kilo?" I was like, "2.2."

"And do you want me to tell you how much that costs?"

Hence, everybody at school knew what I was up to that day.

If Bobby Carlton can do it, so can you.

How do you expand from a small circle of friends and attract more clients?

Making money selling drugs is easy.

Meet Pepe, a retired Southern California drug dealer,

who's going to tell you how simple it is to get customers.

Like I say, is not hard. Everybody can do it.

Well, you just walk out to the street and the park

and everybody is gonna say, "Hey! Spark it up," and you'll start rolling.

If you smoke outside, you make a friend, because weed makes friends.

Weed makes friends.

Now that you've got some customers,

you're gonna need some product.

Where do you get it?

Most people know where to get it,

and if you don't know where to get marijuana in bulk to sell,

all you have to do is ask one or two people, and someone's gonna know.

People will front you as many drugs as you can sell.

As long as you can continue to pay people back, they will front them to you.

And if you want to skip the middle men? Grow your own weed.

Pepe spent quite a few winters making a lot of money without ever having to leave home.

To grow some weed, uh, in your house, you only need electricity,

big lamps, and water.

You get in the internet, you have the seeds, you know.

This is just kind of like a starter kit for people.

You can get it at any hydroponics store and get your whole setup.

They'll sell you the tubes, the nutrients, the little planters.

In about 45 days, these will grow to about six feet tall,

be lush, green, and lovely.

Let it dry for a couple of days, and then pick all the buds off.

So how much money can you expect to make?

Yeah, you can make a lot of money.

I mean, like, is gonna grow a pound for each plant,

and a pound in the streets

goes $2,500, $3,000, if it is a good weed.

Per 10, how much you gonna have?

$30,000.

In three months, people, they doing a whole house.

If you put 50, 150 thousand.

For many dealers, the risk of jail time is worth it.

You make $100,000 selling drugs.

Hide the money, and go to jail, and when you come out, you have money.

If somebody gave me $100,000 to go to jail for five years,

I would take it, you know.

What the fuck. I mean, you..

Sometimes, you work 10 years

and you don't even see $20,000 in your bank account.

But the nearly one million Americans arrested each year for marijuana

are caught on possession charges, and never even sold a joint.

Given the risks, you'll want to save your money as fast as you can

and start trading more expensive drugs.

I got into cocaine, and I loved it.

When it comes to cocaine, America is the land of opportunity.

It's the number one consumer of coke in the world.

The largest study of bank notes

has found that nearly nine out of 10 bills

circulating in the U.S. are tainted with cocaine.

It's a law of nature.

Where there's demand, there's supply.

And that's where you come in.

The life of a coke dealer isn't easy.

When you start out, you're alone, unprotected,

at the bottom of a ruthless, international crime syndicate.

Most of the world's cocaine is manufactured by drug lords in South America.

They smuggle over 500 tons into the U.S. every year.

Along the way, it passes through a long line of distributers,

until a couple of grams get to you,

a pawn in a massive, 70 billion dollar game.

Pawns, man, in the game, they get capped quick.

They be out the game early.

Unless they some smart ass pawns.

Curtis Jackson, otherwise known as 50 Cent, had to learn quick.

My mom hustled to provide for me, financially.

And her friends were all the people that were out selling drugs as a lifestyle.

Curtis was raised without a father,

and his mother was murdered when he was eight years old.

My mom was all I had,

so when I lost her, I lost everything that was pretty much good in my life.

Her old friends bought me things,

then they got tired of just buying me things.

They gave me an eight ball of cocaine.

And they told me, if anybody bothers you,

you know, you tell them you got it from us,

and you'll be all right in the neighbourhood.

I was about 12 years old when that happened to me.

That's the incredible thing about cocaine.

You can use it to make ends meet when there are no other options.

You can be anybody, even a kid.

I would say about 14 or 15. That's when I pretty much started into the drug trade.

Let's say you're down and out, like John was, living in South Central L.A.,

crashing at your family's place,

with no money, not even for food.

We were living in the back of my uncle's house.

He had this lemon tree, and one day he came out and he was like,

We didn't have no food. You know, me and my mom was eating lemons for dinner.

So, after that, I had to get paid.

The money that you could make on the corner was real good.

I started off with small amounts, then I got to the big amounts.

Crack, the most popular form of cocaine sold in the open market.

It's cheaper than powder, so low income users can afford it.

When you work for an organization,

they'll supply you with $10 crack cocaine rocks.

Because most of your customers are addicts,

they'll be impatient to make a buy right out on the street.

And the good thing about crack fiends is they'll keep coming back.

Some guys will make anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000 a day.

Are you the man with them jumbo 6s?

I'll take about three or four hundred.

Damn. (GUN COCKING)

It's harder than functioning in mainstream or corporate America

because the dynamics of it is different.

In order to take a position in that world, you can just, "pow." Just shoot.

The chances of getting robbed are pretty great, you know?

You do as much as you can to minimize that,

but somebody at some point is gonna want what you have,

and they're not gonna have the money to pay for it.

They are gonna try and take it from you.

With 30 years' experience investigating the criminal drug world.

If I steal a television set out of, uh, you know, Best Buy,

it lists for $1,000, I'll sell it for $200 on the street.

If I go rob the dope dealer, I get all his cash,

and I get drugs.

And the advantage of stolen drugs is

when I steal a guy's coke that's worth $1,000,

I get to sell it for $1,000!

There's no discount for hot dope.

Ever happened to you?

Mmm.

Not me. No, I never had no problems like that.

'Cause at the end of the day, you fuck me, you gonna know what's happening.

Are you gonna give them your drugs or are you gonna tell them to fuck off?

And I'm the person that's gonna say fuck off.

If you don't have a pistol, I don't know why you even selling dope.

You won't last. 'Cause somebody gonna try you.

Anyone who is dealing drugs in this community,

if they do not have a gun on them, believe me, it's close by.

It's under a stoop, right around a corner, tucked behind a phone booth,

but it's close by.

They look up in your face, they look up in your eye,