>Like most addicts in denial, potheads live under the bogus assumption that every bong hit will be their last.<p>Uh, what? While there may be some people that have hit problems and want to change because their life is being negatively impacted, most "addicts" are quite fine where they are. I personally don't like pot, but I've never known any pothead to keep saying "this will be my last hit" - quite the opposite. Like Snoop says "Smoke weed everyday".<p>Edit: Also, he disses his pill clients ("depravity"), while simultaneously noting that they're the wealthier ones, pouring him "expensive scotch".<p>Seems like he had some odd delusions of being cool, and wanted to show how hard being a delivery boy is ("read three books a week"), while also showing his superiority to "addicts".
> <i>At times, I was tempted to hand them back their measly $60 and snatch the pipe from their hands and say, “You don't have to live this way.”</i><p>That's a lot of condescension coming from the guy who thought he would look like a "suave gangster" while performing door to door pot deliveries.
The sales incentives make no sense. He made 1/3rd commission on the smallest bags, 1/5th on the medium and 1/6 on the largest bags. It is better for him to sell lots of small bags than 1 big one. In addition, assuming most customers buy the small bag, then upselling to a medium bag would bring no extra financial reward. Putting aside the idea that buying the biggest bag might lead to faster consumption, and assuming that the customers were tied in to the supplier, he would have been better off downselling as the customers would still buy the same amount, just in more transactions, leading to higher returns for him (especially as his transport costs were paid).
I can't help but feel that what the author calls a 'drug dealer's delivery guy' is what I would just call a 'drug dealer'.