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Prohibition Era Rackets
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02/11/15 06:16 PM
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JoeTheBoss
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Bootlegging is the most obvious. Numbers, extortion... what else was big back then? Pardon my ignorance..
"Goodfellas don't sue Goodfellas....Goodfellas kill Goodfellas." - Salvatore Profaci
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Re: Prohibition Era Rackets
[Re: JoeTheBoss]
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02/11/15 09:04 PM
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OldVines
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Re: Prohibition Era Rackets
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02/12/15 09:59 AM
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yigido
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ive read recently that there was a lot more heroin trafficking in that era, that most people know of. and a lot of cocaine, hard drugs were a lot more available than once believed. I read that Luciano started running drugs in his younger years when he was delivering hats as a front job.
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Re: Prohibition Era Rackets
[Re: JoeTheBoss]
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02/12/15 11:16 AM
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Opium and heroin were widespread in those days (though not as much as they would become later in the 50s-70-s) but not coke. Coke was never used on a large scale back then and it wouldn't be used until the late 70s, and 80s.
-I shot him a coupla' times. -What's a couple? -Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times? -Maybe fifteen? -Hmm, it could've been fifteen...
-Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso
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Re: Prohibition Era Rackets
[Re: JoeTheBoss]
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02/12/15 01:56 PM
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It was used for pharmaceutical purposes until the 1914(?) drug convention which outlawed it along with opium and heroin. It was still used in dentistry and maybe as an anesthetic but not abused on a large scale like in the 80s, and snorting, chopping or IVing are just routes of administrating it, we're still talking about the same substance. My point being that I doubt the mob, or anybody profited that much on coke because it wasn't abused on a large scale.
-I shot him a coupla' times. -What's a couple? -Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times? -Maybe fifteen? -Hmm, it could've been fifteen...
-Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso
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Re: Prohibition Era Rackets
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09/15/15 09:30 AM
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i always thought it was mainly alcohol,prostitution,gambling,drug and corruption.
ma tongue hold life my belt hold death. make em bite the dust when they hit the floor. 4-5 to there chest us folk from gangsterbb aint playing. we smoke everyone in this b word like a hookah now. stupid steve hit the corner shooting.
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