Why do most people sell illegal drugs? Because they’re a high school science teacher who has terminal cancer and wants to provide for his wife, palsy son and newborn daughter?
MOST, not all, are junkies or ex-felons. On the rare occasion you’re fortunate enough to find a source that is more about the lifestyle and into it themselves. But those guys usually don’t disappear on periodic benders. That’s classic addict behavior no matter what profession you are in.
Unless maybe he’s been kidnapped by Panda and the Chinese mafia and now they’re holding him against his will in some sort of fortress somewhere and making him brew for domestic Panda…..