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The key point here is cost. A drunk can beg for enough money to drink their way to an early grave every day. A heroin or meth addict cannot possibly beg enough
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y ago
The key point here is cost. A drunk can beg for enough money to drink their way to an early grave every day. A heroin or meth addict cannot possibly beg enough to support such a habit at street prices. Reduce cost watch crime plummet.
- bobthepanda 4y agoFentanyl is much, much cheaper. Crime is doing the exact opposite of plummeting.
- twelve40 4y agoAccording to the Atlantic article posted above, the prices for some drugs are plummeting already (10x drop in the last decade): > With labs popping up everywhere, the price of a pound of meth fell to nearly $1,000 for the first time on U.S. streets by the late 2010s—a 90 percent drop from a decade earlier in many areas.