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Memo to wannabe drug peddlers: There are smarter ways to market product than handing out business cards carrying your phone number. A couple of dopey Missouri dealers, Raymond Bentley, 18, and Collus Watson, 26, recently learned that lesson the hard way. Seems the men distributed "Dunn Deal Enterprises" business cards to scores of high school students, some of whom bought marijuana from Bentley and Watson. As you can at left, one card featured a fist grasping a wad of cash, while the other carried a crudely drawn marijuana leaf. After cops obtained one of the business cards, they called the number and set up an undercover purchase. Bentley and Watson now face felony charges of distributing drugs near a school,which could land them in prison for 10 years. Geez, what happened to good old word of mouth? (3 pages)