On Apr 24, 9:36 am, wrote:
The high cost of drug use is because it is illegal and the price is
artificially inflated to line the pockets of those in the manu. and distr.
of the illegal drugs. If they were not illegal, they could be sold for
less than alcohol.


Yup, and the other cost is in lining the pockets of the cops and other
law enforcement officials who protect those manu. and dist. Where I
grew up, if you did not feed the cops, you got busted. Even worse if
you tried to compete with their kids for the drug business.