>The high black-market price for illegal drugs has generated huge profits for the groups that produce and sell them, income that is invested in buying state-of-

>The high black-market price for illegal drugs has generated huge profits for the groups that produce and sell them, income that is invested in buying state-of-the-art weapons, hiring gangs to defend their trade, paying off public officials and making drugs easily available to children, to get them addicted. Drugs are cheaper now than they every have been. I'd argue it's the lack of regulated competition, leading to a handful of cartels that take the lion's share of the market (and money) that gives them such power. https://www.alternet.org/drugs/price-illegal-drugs-dropping-purity-increasing-and-global-war-drugs-failing https://www.alternet.org/drugs/price-illegal-drugs-dropping-...