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aliasmarx: The lookouts not doing a great job somones photographed the whole deal!
Smelly_Elvis: Yeah, I always bring a photographer when I buy my C’caine.
MOTAMOUTH: You think they would already cut cocaine at this time? And I thought It was still legal?
shillyshally: That man could not look more movie villain. Maybe it’s because he looks sort of like Peter Lorre.
Sploitspiller: Is that Creed Bratton?
jtinz: I would have expected cocaine to be legal back then.
repeatwad: There is a mystery series set in this time period, a book called *Babylon Berlin* by Volker Kutscher follows crime against the backdrop of conflict between communists and nazis.
sfacets: I feel like if there were any perfectly valid period to be taking drugs it was in the first half of the 1900’s.
paisley53: Is the lookout the person wearing a hat and leaning against the wall, or the person on the far right just standing there in a coat?
fridaymonkeyk: Nothing like a well lit photo & photographer to keep a illegal drug deal on the down low.
CrunchyNappyFap: Even in this styled clothing the man looks like a dealer
StonedZombie25: I wonder who took this picture without them noticing
Greatpointbut: Where was this particular cocaine grown is what I wonder.
gzip_this: Looks a bit like Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife).
AutoRockAsphixiation: Two things people have always done and will always do; fuck and get fucked up. We should focus on making those things safer rather than criminalizing or stigmatizing them.
Michalo88: What is a cocaine capsule?
wowzaa1: How do you know its cocaine?
GooBear187: Cocaine capsules? What haha. Bruh don’t be a bobbie and just sniff it
smitty1087: “How much you want, see? “ (In voice tone and accent synonymous with 1920’s gangsters)
Wavey_Davey_34987: When did we go from holding cigarettes in our mouth to holding cigarettes in our hand and why?
jeefray: Prior to 1900 in the United States most street drugs were sold as medicine and were perfectly legal.
UncensoredIdeas-PORN: Where was this found?
How do you know what’s happening?
tangatalaga: The dealer looks like and fist the character description of Creed on the Office!
ausbos5: Nothing’s changed, studied abroad there for six months and bought a couple grams of marijuana with two cops about 80-100 yards away from me. That city is the best.
Ckjorstadhris: Is this dealer still around? Or like, his kids? Are his kids dealers now? Maybe his grandchildren? Are his grandchildren dealing cocaine? Where can I find cocaine?
rumblith: Anyone else think he kinda looks like Ed Harris/The Man in Black? I think I’d like to see him in a 20’s era film as a cocaine dealer.
digiskunk: This is the kind of content I came for! Such an intriguing photo. I wonder how much the capsules cost?
Whaddaya Say?