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> We could supply the entire country's heroin/fent supply for probably 1/1000 what the average street user is paying for their doses Nonsense. It's not that ch
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> We could supply the entire country's heroin/fent supply for probably 1/1000 what the average street user is paying for their doses
Nonsense. It's not that cheap to manufacture (under regulated conditions) and distribute opioids like that. 1/1000th of the price? Even the cheapest, most easily manufactured commercial opioid medications aren't coming anywhere near that after decades of optimization the manufacturing processes.
- _jal 4y agoThis is the worst sort of hn pedantry, but I have to agree. The security premium paid by cartels down through street dealers is indeed real, but QC and regulatory compliance would eat a lot of that savings. And the executive tax at cartels is probably similar to public firms.
- heavyset_go 4y agoFentanyl is dirt cheap to manufacture, and people on the street are paying tens of thousands of dollars per gram of it, given that a dose for an equivalent amount of heroin can be much lower than a milligram. The actual cost to manufacture that much would be several orders of magnitude less than what it drug users are paying for it.