That’s a rule: Dress like an off-duty Applebee’s waiter. I know what that looks like, because, after all, I’ve worked at Applebee’s. I make even shitty jobs like that work for me. Experience is my education and education is my advantage. Part edge-of-the-seat suspense story, part how-to manual in the tradition of The Anarchist Cookbook, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing is as scintillating as it is subversive. Just reading it feels illegal. Stephen McNally, prosecuting, said Hughes' home in Fazakerley, was used to store large quantities of cash and drugs, where he was "hands on" in weighing and "bashing" - cutting with adulterants - for onward supply.

Lays bare the link between organised crime, the state and policing” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING featured in Morning Star (7/29/2021) Drug Dealing, the Media, and the Politics of Division” — Matt Taibbi interviewed about THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING on Letters and Politics (9/16/2021) One of the reasons for that is the fourth car. He stays tight behind the load car, so police can’t get directly behind him. He’s getting in the way, so they can’t run plates easily. He’s running interference. Rule: every time you enter a state, change out your cars. Rule: drive rentals but make sure you’ve got in-state plates as often as possible. Iowa cars in Iowa, Colorado cars in Colorado. And so on. And you don’t stop except to sleep and go to the bathroom. Of all the books I've written, [ The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing is] the one that I'm probably most proud of.”—Matt TaibbiWe have been working closely with partner agencies and neighbouring police forces to target the people who are responsible for bringing misery to our streets. Weeded out of business by a cannabis coup” — Matt Taibbi’s THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed by Morning Star (8/17/2021)

He said Marshall's family would suffer from his absence, particularly his 16-year-old daughter, and unlike others in the gang, he didn't have an EncroChat phone. Liam Hughes enjoyed up to six holidays a year, jetting off to see top DJs at events in Ibiza and Croatia, thanks to his ill-gotten gains.Late December, 2015, Oakland, California. I’ve been sending loads out of state fifty pounds at a time from the different farms. Two suitcases of 25 pounds apiece in the trunk of every third car is standard. Caravans to different states: some to the Pacific Northwest, some to the Midwest, and some all the way east.

The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison. And here’s the other advantage we have: we know police profile. We use it against them. That’s an important rule: Embrace racial stereotypes. Secrets of Drug Dealing Unveiled” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Rising (4/1/2021)

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He was out of St. Louis, the son of my aunt Sonja, my father’s sister. Aunt Sonja treated me like a son of her own. Whenever I was in town, she’d drop everything to make me catfish. We were tight, which is why I made a mistake and brought in her son. It also doesn't go into the story much on a personal level, like he doesn't talk much about how he felt about things that shaped his life, but contains enough to pull at your own emotions and get a general picture. It's good in a way because it stops it from getting tedious or feeling like a sob story. Buddy was a street dealer out there, a younger guy. He thought he was a real dealer until he met me. Then he saw what real money and real product looked like. Hughes admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis, and to convert criminal property, and possessing cannabis. But then all these California farmers got in this situation, and I suddenly had to unload a lot of product. I had no choice. St. Louis was a market I knew I needed.