When your dope dealer gets popped before delivering your dope, tell the cops you want your money back. Make sure 2 "send a lawyer letter" first, so they'll know you're insane a real badass who knows shit & not somebody to f8ck with.
You know, people also sold video cards, olive oil, fake sunglasses and watches (for those who can't afford the real thing)...
If your drug dealer also sold olive oil when he got busted for dope, do you think the cops ask him "Sir, how much of this money was made in your legitimate enterprises, as opposed to sales of this shit crank?" Would you demand, as an olive oil customer, that the cops refunded you your money? How hard do you suppose they would laugh in your face?
As far as fake sunglasses and watches, those are illegal--that's why they were sold on SR instead of eBay. That's why the d00ds on Canal street keep their shit in garbage bags & have a system of lookouts just like crack dealers used to.
So now you know.