'My night with a meth dealer': Documentary explores Brisbane's drug abusing-elite

A documentary crew has spent a night with a Brisbane meth dealer, following the seedy life of a man who claims to make $2000 a night.

Documentary maker Hayden McKee, 22, spent three months getting to know the dealer.

He claimed it wasn’t the seediness of the drug world which surprised him, but the extravagant homes of Brisbane’s drug-abusing elite.

Darryl* spends his nights doing methamphetamine drop offs to his clients, in the footage he smokes a glass pipe full of the drug before hitting the road.

“I guess the risk is fun – cruising around and dropping the s*** off,” Darryl said, when quizzed about his deliveries.

“Transporting meth is a bit risky but I think it’s less risk than having potential crack heads coming and robbing you during the night.”

Meth is a Class A substance with a popularity that is rapidly spreading across Australia.

But even Darryl was quick to admit the drug was incredibly toxic.

Side effects include brain bleeding, kidney failure, circulatory collapse and even psychosis.

Despite this he didn’t see his "job" as the problem.

“If we’re not selling it someone else is going to be selling it,” he said

“The people we sell to aren’t junkies. They all hold down jobs and are productive members of society.

“I don’t see much of an issue.

"If I get caught, it's my own fault... high return for high risk," he said.

He said he earned up to $500 for a gram of the drug, and he had a low tolerance for debts.

“I got suckered in and got a big sob story from a woman,” he said.

“I gave her something and she disappeared and changed her phone number. We tracked her down and pretty much kidnapped her.

“Me and my partner drove her around for four hours in the bush. We scared the s*** out of her and took her home. It was fun. And I think she learned her lesson.”

McKee explained Darryl was more than willing to tell his story.

“I don’t think they were ever concerned about me being an undercover cop or anything,” he told Daily Mail.

“They were actually really excited about the project. They thought it was going to make them millionaires.”

McKee was anxious about driving around with a guy who had just smoked meth for the sake of his work.

“I was thinking what might happen if the guy was caught by the cops. Would they think I was a meth dealer as well,” he said.

He said his brief time in the meth underworld had been "shocking" and that his perception had changed in a negative way.

“How can another human being sell this to someone else? The whole time he was filming he was trying to justify his actions.”

*Darryl's name is a pseudonym.