There's been plenty of technological progress in the drug trade despite being illegal nearly everywhere, and a widespread perception of drugs being a social ill

There's been plenty of technological progress in the drug trade despite being illegal nearly everywhere, and a widespread perception of drugs being a social ill. It's inevitable that if there is enough demand for something, someone will make it. There will be people out there that don't care about the ethics. Some of those things can be constrained by regulation or social pressure, but only some of them.