The 17-Year-Old Drug Kingpin - Neatorama

A certain 17-year-old high school student near Cincinnati, Ohio, certainly has a zeal for entrepreneurship: he has managed to juggle academics and run his own multimillion dollar business. Meet the 17-year-old drug kingpin:

Ohio police have arrested an alleged drug kingpin, a 17-year-old accused of running a multimillion dollar ring that distributed high-grade marijuana through two school districts and netted $20,000 a month.
When cops raided the boy's bedroom at his parents' home, they found over $6,000 in cash, prosecutors said.

Russell Goldman of ABC News has the story: Link [Auto-starting video]

Another example of government regulation strangling small businesses.

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Marijuana growers don't pay for the electricity they use. Maybe if they did, their argument for legitimacy could be taken slightly more seriously.

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Yeah, just legalize it already. I don't smoke it, but seriously don't see it as a big deal and hell.. the government could make a ton of money selling it legally to people.

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Capitalism @ it's finest. Help the youth of America prosper. Legalize Marijuana.

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Marvelous. I'm taking a wild guess as to the parent's life style.

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FFS - legalize it already!

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So the mother never noticed the electric bill was suddenly a LOT more than it was before?

If I were running a multi-million dollar growhouse business I might just find some teenagers to sell "franchises" to...let them do the work, give them a cut, and let them take the fall since they would be tried as minors.

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@gnipgnop - gross revenue is much larger than net revenue.

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"A wise man can hear profit in the wind."

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how is 20grand a month a multimillion dollar business? thats 240grand a year. after 4 years it;s almost a million.

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There are a large number of under age "drug kingpins" that start the business hen they are 16 and end it at 17 years and 364 days.

I will leave it to you to figure out why.

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awesome. now all those kids will get their marijuana from a mexican cartel instead.

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