Comment re: drug dealers getting people hooked (Score 1) 215
Honestly though, I suspect it rarely plays out quite that way.
What REALLY happens is a drug dealer (like everyone else) wants to hang out with a group of friends and have fun sometimes. Of course, being addicted to a substance means he/she only stands a chance of keeping friends around who partake in the same activity. So people who are already drawn to that lifestyle for whatever reason spend time with the dealer, getting some drugs free and other times probably being asked to "chip in" for their cost. Once they become addicted themselves -- then they've got to have the stuff often enough so they gotta start dealing themselves or doing illegal things to pay for the habit, so it's moved past the stage of just fun spare time activities for them.
The cliche of the sneaky drug dealer coming out from the shadows and giving out free drugs to young or naive people to trick them into becoming a new customer is kind of ridiculous.