Ken Behr
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
All this was built on the bones of the mobsters, this Bugsy Seagulls and all that.
This was nothing, a place in the desert, until the mob
The government started prohibition and the mob came out here and took the money they made from selling illegal booze and doing illegal speakeasies and built this town.
So if it wasn't for cocaine being illegal, Pablo Escobar wouldn't exist.
The Medellin cartel wouldn't exist.
The Ochoa brothers, Guzman in Mexico wouldn't exist if it wasn't for there's a market in America.
The prior president of Mexico said it best.
He goes, we don't have a drug problem.
America does.
It's just passing through us.
And I don't have, look, I wish I could say the answers to this.
I've lost friends, but most people, nobody I know has ever died from cocaine.
Maybe from partying too much and having a bad heart and killing themselves.
Shooting it, you can definitely die from it.
not advocating anybody doing it.
I don't do it.
Not anymore.
My current wife said, you can smoke all the weed you want, hence the marijuana mercenary hat.
She goes, but if you ever do a line of coke, I'm leaving you.
I said, honey, if I ever do a line, I'm probably leaving too.