Latino Grocery Stores Sell Drugs Illegally Because It’s Their Culture

Next time a Hispanic grocery store employee sells you illegal prescription drugs, know that you are doing your part to promote other cultural practices and traditions:

Ivan Segura, president of the South Carolina Hispanic Leadership Council, grew up in Mexico and remembers getting drugs from store clerks.

“They don’t see the gravity of the whole issue because it’s part of the tradition,” Segura said. “Anybody opening a business should be aware of the laws that go into it.”

This comes after two store owners were arrested for helping you get through another weekend with minimal social awkwardness / feeling:

The two store owners arrested were charged with numerous counts of possession of prescription drugs.

“This is a cultural phenomenon,” state health department spokesman Thom Berry said. “We don’t necessarily believe these are people who are deliberately setting out to break the law.”

See? When we pop an Ambien and begin to see tiny little construction workers crawling all over our blankets, we are simply endorsing Latin America’s rich tradition of magical realism.

Hispanic Grocery Owners Charged With Selling Prescription Drugs [WSOC TV]