A pot-selling drug ring, aimed at selling to teenagers in the tony suburbs of the Mainline in Philadelphia, was busted. Titled "The Mainline Takeover Project", the ringerleaders were graduates of The Haveford School, and were once stand-outs on their lacrosse team.

This makes me think about the plot in Cross-Currents, where Andy and Trey get the idea that it might be cool for them to become drug dealers on the basis that because they're good-looking and popular, people might be more comfortable buying from them, without getting the idea that you should be as low-profile as possible. (Thank god the drug guy turned them down flat.)

Anyway, the really cynical part of me thinks that these kids will pretty much get off with a slap on the wrist because they're from "good families" in good areas who went to good schools, except for Neil Scott, who will get scapegoated as the bad evil older man who led these impressionable teenagers down a bad path. Tim Brooks' lawyer was already working hard for his retainer fee.

I think there's something fascinating about teenagers who are motivated to do this- they come from rich/affluent families so they don't need the money the way the stereotypical drug dealers do, and they wind up risking what should be very bright futures ascribed to them by their "Little Boxes" upbringing. Maybe it's a combination of greed and boredom with their lives.