@steve-walschot
Empathy, then post.  @hustle-no-more was a KID!  When I was 13 I had a business, too:  delivering newspapers.  

I mean come on dude.  

Now, this part might sound a little harsh, but I think it's the appropriate and ethical thing to say here so I am going to:  

* @hustle-no-more didn't do anything wrong, he was a kid placed into this situation, and... how can I put this-- when something-- even something like dealing crack-- is "normal"-- well, you do it because that's what your tribe does.  Your community.  
* Now, some people did do terrible things, really.  Those people are the politicians who made drugs illegal in the first place, and even moreso the nixon-era politicans who deliberately used drug policy to harm the left movement in the states and of course-- minorities of every non-white color.  
* But despite the uneven enforcement of our drug laws in the states, even whites are hurt by our drug laws.  

Pure drugs of known quality and quantity just aren't that dangerous, even financially.  Cocaine has a production cost somewhere around sugar.  Marijuana similar to any dried herb, and the list goes on and on-- and really-- none of them-- NONE OF THEM-- just instantly kill you.  Now, know that I'm not at all advocating for drugs.  I'm advocating for drug legalization, so that we can all be free of the war on drugs.  All the white people coming to @hustle-no-more's neighborhood wouldn't have been harming his community if it weren't for the fact that what they wanted was illegal, and so they turned to America's usual bitch to get it:  the poor.  

Dude, you just have no fucking clue, okay?  

I'm really, really sincerely sorry about your relative, and my post probably doesn't sound like I possibly could be, but I am.  I wish they had pure drugs of a known quantity and quality to take safe-ish-ly, instead of the crap that probably killed them.  That's what's killing users, BTW, and that is a direct result of the war on drugs.  As Americans, we need to own up to this.

* Stop the war on drugs
* Stop using WOD to profile / harass / imprison poor people
* Stop using WOD to export politics and political violence outside of US borders
* Stop using WOD to import cocaine/heroin to fund black ops

Dude, no.  @hustle-no-more deserves no spot whatsoever on anyone's list.  And hell, I haven't heard the rest of the story, he might've done some fucked up shit-- I don't know.  But he got pulled into a vortex of shit caused directly by decades of literally **evil** policies.