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Re:Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life... by GreeniFi on Saturday May 11, 2019 @11:29PM (#19889935)
Thank you. And I recognize it as true that many criminals had a hard childhood in particular. But some don’t - and I wonder what the motivation is.
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Re:Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life... by bwb on Saturday May 11, 2019 @11:48PM (#19890020)
Money, fame, reputation, a fast life that isn’t minimum wage and hopelessness. We worship a certain story in the USA and it isn’t 30 years of remedial work so we can retire and garden :)
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Re:Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life... by wizardforhire on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:43AM (#19890370)
You might be interested in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Cowboys

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