Ex-drug dealer made £20K a day selling cannabis | LBC

Reformed drug dealer reveals the struggle of incentivising gang members to swap crime for a 'proper job'.

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[Haddadprojects]

Tom is seriously considering a career change by the end of the call! 😂

[dancingfrogsxb]

Trust me this dreamer wasn't making 20k a day 😂😂😂😂

[CTommo]

Geezers waffling hard here. He has to be moving mad amounts to hit 10 20 racks a day

[firstlast-tffq]

That’ll be revenue not profit. Need to be teaching our dealers business basics

[PeacockRhino]

£20k a day would be over £7 million a year. If you did that for one year you’d leave London asap and go retire on a beach somewhere, not be ringing in to LBC to brag.

[elriano]

"Making 10k a day". Yeah, and giving it straight to his supplier. He's just the little skivvy they get to deliver the product who's happy taking a £200 cut while living out of his council flat.

[NigelAndTommyAreGrifters]

No way he made £20k a day selling bud 😂😂😂 Sounds like a low level dealer so maybe £200 a day if he was lucky

[Ipcallnet]

Tom stopped listening when the 20K a day sank in...He is definitely reconsidering his career 😅

[martinwest]

Even Mr nice wasnt making 20k a day selling green, what a melon.

[jimmac]

20k a day … ! But profit was a half ounce for personal use

[jotttn]

You can tell when someone is living in a fantasy world

[NorthernLiberal]

and they'd rather keep it a criminal offence rather than taxing it and regulating it

[therobbieunited]

20k on his best day
Average punter buys 50£ worth
400 punters in a day
Is that possible
Not for one man
Big crew, controlling a large part of london, maybe

[maxine]

Decriminalise it and the government can make that selling it through their shops?

[BrianLinkin]

No point being the richest man in the graveyard bruv 😢

[bowdenwilliams]

This is the heart of the problem. We’ve allowed this nightmare to develop.

[Taporeee]

TOM literally contemplating a business venture

[JayR-hz]

“Better to be thought of as an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”

[alandillon]

This is not an exaggeration. I used to work in a deprived area where drugs and gangs were the norm. A young guy who had stopped attending school at 12 and was a "runner" for the drug dealers. If caught, they don't go to prison, so entice young kids in as runners.
He was 17 and wanted to get out before he was caught and end up in prison. He did drug running, robbed cars, and take them apart to sell. Explained because he couldn't read, write spell much he would have to do these before training as a motor mechanic, chose it because he liked cars. Explained it would take 4 or 5 years during which time he would earn very little. When qualified what he could earn. He laughed, told me he had government bonds, shares and 3 bank accounts with money in each because he earned so much from crime. This is the problem of getting people off crime...crime pays! A job come no whete near it.

[ScottDuke-zy]

The interviewers interested he wants in as soon as he heard how much in a day he definitely turned his attention on 😆