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From the addict's perspective, it's because it's better to use something that's cheap and only might kill you, versus something that is only slightly cheaper an
by joecool1029 8y ago
From the addict's perspective, it's because it's better to use something that's cheap and only might kill you, versus something that is only slightly cheaper and probably will kill you due to difficulty in dosing.
The only reason fent exists on the black market is it's stupidly easy to smuggle compared to heroin, a tiny thimbleful of it could be cut into something like a thousand doses. This works out for dealer economics, it's not to benefit the addict.
- GordonS 8y agoI believe fentanyl is also relatively easy to synthesise.
- trhway 8y ago>This works out for dealer economics, it's not to benefit the addict. there were some articles/research that the harsher the Prohibition enforcement the more trafficking shifts into the higher potent stuff.
- wutbrodo 8y agoYea it's called "The Iron Law of Prohibition", which mostly has to do with the fact that more potent drugs take up less space per eventual dollar paid by the end user, and shipping lower volume means dealing with less risk (and thus cost) during transport (risk, of course, being one of the main things that make drugs expensive).
- code_duck 8y agoIllegality also encroaches users to use drugs in a way that maximizes their effect, such as injection, insufflation or smoking. Cocaine is, for instance, active orally, but few people take it that way these days.
- code_duck 8y agoI meant ‘encourages’.