How did poor people hustle before the drug trade? They did
other things to survive. Some of those might have been
illegal. But not like the drug trade...the drug trade is about
much more than surviving. It's about big commerce, turf, fear
and intimidation, power and death. Back in the day, people
without money still had pride, still cleaned up their
neighborhoods, still took care of their families...certain
things never came home...if you were selling weed, you did it
somewhere else. You respected the home. I'm speaking on
average as a community (there are always exceptions). That's
not the case now...and people will shoot up your home with
your family in it (or fire bomb it as with the Dawson family
here in B-more) if you confront drug dealers or sell drugs on
their turf, etc.

Yet, as with the Dawson family, a woman stood up and said no
more and now there is no more dealing in that neighborhood.
(Perhaps it's too early to claim a victory and her death was a
very high price to pay.)