Tahlia Isaac

Um, at the time I felt like before I started selling drugs, I had no power.

Yeah.

I had no control over my life and I had no, I had no like self-worth at that point in my life again.

And when I was selling drugs, I had, I had control.

I had the power back for the first time in a really long time.

I had power back in my life and choice.

Right.

And it felt exciting and I felt confident and I felt like I knew what I was doing because I'd always been crime adjacent.

Don't tell the cops that one.

Yeah, like I had always seen how it's done and-

you know, the type of personality that I am, it was almost like second nature to me and never felt, I never, it never felt wrong.

And I never felt like I was doing anything wrong because it wasn't, I wasn't going rocking up into random people's doorsteps going, do you want to buy some drugs?

It was people come to me asking for them.

I'm just trying to get the- I'm not kind of going out there pushing it, pushing it, pushing it.

It was people are asking for it.

I've got it and they're using it anyways.

Yeah.

It was never this, it felt bad.

It never felt wrong.

I mean, obviously I knew it was a crime because I'm not out there, you know, telling the cops I'm doing it.