Dealing drugs and writing with Matt (video)

M. Jeserich (L&P, 9/14/21); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Journalist Matt Taibbi on dealing drugs, the mainstream media, and division

Drug reform has made dealing big business.

(Letters and Politics, KPFA, 9/14/21) Guest Matt Taibbi is a journalist whose writings on the great divide and other subjects can now be found on substack.com.

He is the author of many books including his latest, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: An Almost True Account. He sits down for a fun interview with Mitch Jeserich on Pacifica Free Speech Radio in Berkeley.

Matt Taibbi and one of his reasons for living

In real life there is a person like “Anonymous” who, for the sake of this story, I’ll call Huey Carmichael. I was friends with this person for a while before I learned about his other life:

The real Huey knows more than a thing or two about the weed business.

He keeps rules. The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to (a) make money and (b) avoid prison.

Business Secrets of Drug Dealing

Each rule shapes a chapter of this fast-paced outlaw tale, all delivered in Huey’s deliciously trenchant argot. Here are a few of them:

• Always have a job.
• Stay behind the white guy.
• Don’t snitch.
• No guns but keep shooters.
• Be multi-sourced.
• Get the money and get out.

Part edge-of-the-seat suspense story, part how-to manual in the tradition of The Anarchist Cookbook, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing is as scintillating as it is subversive. Just reading it feels illegal.

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