Looking for stories of times you interacted with a criminal organization in any capacity. Were/are there any infamous locals frequently talked about in your area (please don’t dox yourself). Please give a genuine answer not a political stance. The only one I think I’ve had was a story I’ve told here before about having met an Aryan brotherhood guy when I was 12ish.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    10 hours ago

    timer that I’d just started to roll with told me this: “There’s no such thing as victimless crime -

    The only victims of the crime of cannabis possession are the people who get arrested for it.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      9 hours ago

      Hey, let’s not forget the victims of trafficking that got to become indentured farmers at the behest of criminal overlords in jurisdictions where cultivation is criminalised.

      Let’s not forget the militias that get armed via resin and kiff sales.

      Let’s not forget the corner boy who gets nanked for slinging off the wrong curb.

      I wish the ganja business people were more like their target audience in demeanour; but criminals always going to criminal.