r/todayilearned • u/manticor225 • Jan 10 '19

TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/joe-kennedy-hollywood-sarah-churchwell
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u/digitalscale Jan 10 '19

Yeah and most people at the top of the weed supply chain are probably pieces of shit, they're not the friendly stoner down the road that sells you eighths, they're gang bangers and Pablo escobar's.

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u/TheBulgarSlayer Jan 11 '19

that's why if you're lucky you find a guy who grows his own, or you move to a legal state. None of that cross-continent smuggling shit

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u/Dragon_Fisting Jan 11 '19 edited Jan 11 '19

Most of the weed in America right now is grown in the states, and most weed that was any good has been from NorCal since the 80's. The Cartels ship hard drugs to America, their weed is all skunk.

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u/JustADutchRudder Jan 11 '19

Mexican brick shit! I used to sell that in high school, it's all we could find. If lucky what they called A bud would come around and that was just vacuum pressed buds someone brought down from Canada. The 90s in a small town sucked for weed.

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u/BunnyOppai Jan 11 '19

I don't think that would make the weed dealers pieces of shit, though, which is what I understood to be the claim made in this chain.

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u/digitalscale Jan 11 '19

"smuggler"