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Inside the Mind of College Drug Dealers

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Story by Larry Lanza May 5th, 2016
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Zeek is a college student working to get his degree while still enjoying himself and making the most of his four years. Zeek is a social butterfly with a more than friendly personality. His room is equipped with climbing gear, hiking equipment, camping utilities, skateboards, a few cameras and snowboards. He is a true outdoorsman and any free time is spent in the sun or rain or whatever Mother Nature is offering that day. The man is well known among his peers and very well liked. His social notoriety is mainly for his glowing personality, but also he is known because he supplies many students with drugs. He is a college drug dealer.

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Zeek lives with nine other friends, all students. The house is mess and alcohol bottles, beer cans, bong, dirty dishes and the oder of cigarette smoke fills the living room and kitchen. There is a narrow hallway with a blue florescent beer sign flickering. Zeeks shows off all the chalk drawing on the wall across from the light to new people who come into the house. Someone friendly is always in the living room smoking a spliff playing video games or watching sports and cartoons. you can escape the dirtiness and commotion of the living room by going through the big green door into Zeeks room.

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“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t do this for the money, but different ways to make money has always peaked my interest.,” Zeek said as he went into his closet to grab his shoebox where he keeps his product- primarily weed but also acid and mushrooms. Zeek is able to afford new hiking equipment, a new mountain bike, and whatever else will make his outdoor lifestyle more enjoyable. Unlike the stereotypical college student, he is not looking for change to do laundry or searching for the cheapest meal to eat at all times. This however, does not mean he is a showman and flaunts his money. He is modest beyond words and very generous in his quantities and payment periods with to those he cares about.

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“I like to sell because my friends don’t ever have to deal with the sketchy drug deals ever again,” Zeek said. He knows, however, there is risk involved when it comes to being a student and a drug dealer. One wrong move and he could be expelled and find himself in jail. Next year Zeek is moving into a house with less people and a little further away from campus, and this does sound like the safer option. However, his new landlord is a police officer in the village and is known to patrol by the new home. Zeek does not what to stop selling and providing for his clients, but he knows theres is a too much at risk. Zeek would face criminal chargers if he was ever to be caught dealing acid or mushrooms, and an almost certain expulsion from school.

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“Different ways of making money has always piqued my interest,” said Zeek. Zeek is never really worried about the risk of getting caught by the school. He lives off campus so there is not that over bearing eye on him. However, the legal ramification can and have almost put and end to his dealing and college career. When a package containing a few pounds of weed, coming from the west coast, was picked off, Zeek and his supplier were very frightened. So much so that they did not engage in deals with each other for a few months.

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Zeek, does not plan to continue this profession forever, but for the time being it is aiding his hobbies and making his college experience enjoyable.