This matter involved what, to all of them, and to Rob in particular, could be the opportunity of a lifetime: fifty pounds of bulk marijuana that could be obtained, through Curtis’s connect, at an up-front cost of $4,000 apiece—less than 10 percent of the market rate. All told, they stood to profit in the vicinity of $400,000 in a few months’ time—a 2,000 percent return, enough to take care of their mothers, grandmothers, girlfriends, and children for more than a year. Enough to buy suits for job interviews. Enough to not have to hustle for the foreseeable future, and perhaps ever again.
