I talked with a former gang member recently about drugs.
1) credit to buy drugs is given if you have a job. No job, no credit, you buy with cash. Where does someone without credit get cash.
2) If you are a drug dealer and you use, you are out immediately and they know pretty fast. This is one thing the movies got right.
3) What do the drug dealers do with the large amounts of cash?
a) they launder it. Can you think a better way to launder your money than the legal weed business
b) They use their cash to buy influence and respect in the community. Time for all of us to review the GodFather.
Scarface would be more instructive.