How I got into Selling Drugs

I’ve always been interested in making money and causing trouble. I was around twelve years old when I “went bad”. In PEI, the [magic] mushrooms grow wild. Magic Mushrooms. I kept hearing about the older kids taking the magic mushrooms. I was curious what happens when you eat these things?

I remember playing a game of baseball in my front yard when I was in Grade 7. I told my best friend at the time that I wanted to try magic mushrooms. He says, “No, you’re crazy …”. I didn’t listen to him. I never listened to anybody. I tried the mushrooms and it was the freakiest experience I ever had. I took them at lunch on a school day. A little while later, I was in history class and I thought the room was floating. I saw waves in the floor like it was made of water. The teacher was about ten feet tall. Then he was short and fat. Then he was tall and skinny again. I was stoned and I loved it. I found some new friends and we’d take mushrooms every weekend. First we’d just go stand outside the liquor store until we found us someone willing to buy us some beer. Then we’d take mushrooms and hang around by the train tracks just having a good time.

In the summer, my cousins would come down from Montreal and stay for a few weeks. They were older than me and I didn’t spend a lot of time with them. But one of them, Mike, was selling drugs and he would bring pot and hash down with him. He told me that if I would sell five joints for him, he’d give me one. For every five I sold, I’d get one. So I started selling pot. I was 12 years old.

Mike also said that if I picked mushrooms with him, he’d buy them from me. That first year that I started picking, I got three ounces. I sold them to Mike for $100.00 each. That’s $300.00. My first drug deal, I was on my way. The next year, I picked about a half pound (eight ounces). The mushrooms would grow in the fall, from September to November. I’d pick them after school and sometimes I’d get up before school and go picking.

I soon had enough money to buy a motorcycle – a Yamaha 200 street and dirt. With this I could travel around and find all the best fields for picking. Most years, I would get about 2 pounds. Instead of selling them for cash, I would mail them to Montreal and Mike would send back hash on trade. I would sell the hash by the gram. It was always good hash and I could get $20/gram.

By the time that I was 16, I was making a lot of money, enough money that I could afford cocaine. Soon, I was having that sent down from Montreal too. I was a sixteen year old cocaine dealer. This was in the early eighties in small town Prince Edward Island. Cocaine dealers were few and far between at that time. But I was headed for the big leagues.

Below is an article on mushrooms from this time period (author unknown):

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