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By: JOE CREA COMMENTS
 
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thing you would never do is allow your [cocaine] business to fail. You will
let everything else get destroyed — families, friends — before your business
fails. Those coke people are phenomenal business people.”
In addition to Corbin and his “CEO,” he said his business employed a senior
sales manager who made sure that the drug runners were taken care of and got
what they wanted. There were roughly 8-10 runners in his business and on a “good
day” 15 runners, Corbin said.
Corbin, an addict himself, justified his role by insisting that he was teaching
others how to use responsibly and took pride in noting that none of his clients
ever openly injected — also known as “slamming” — or smoked crystal.
“I thought that smoking and slamming took away from the drug’s glamour,” Corbin
said. “It really does.”
Corbin said that many users and dealers often don’t want to associate themselves
with the “dirty” aspects of the business. Corbin said his drug dealing operation
did not include physical violence. In other drug dealing communities, it’s
common to “beat the hell out of the distributor if he fucks up,” Corbin said.
He added that a number of lesbians are in the business and are crystal users
themselves.
“Lesbians are phenomenal addicts,” Corbin said. “They don’t fuck up. They
are shrewd businesswomen.”
Corbin said that his network was broken up last year after his business partner’s
addiction became so severe he became convinced that Corbin was trying to put
him out of business. He said that he was making $500,000 a year when working
full-time. When he worked part-time, which he said he did frequently, the take
was $100,000 annually.
He also wanted to get out of the business for his boyfriend, whom he referred
to at the time as his “Mafia princess,” a “possession” that made him vulnerable
to enemies.
Corbin said he now works as a consultant for a friend who sells drugs.
In April, the DEA announced that more than 65 people were arrested, in collaboration
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