As are the people who make a desired product illegal and thus inflate the profits and restrict them to criminal hands.
The people may always try to petition their governments to get those products legalized but in the meantime persons acting in a lawless fashion in the procurement of substances not absolutely necessary for life or limb makes such persons just as blood guilty as those criminals who butcher innocent people in the production and distribution of said substances! Now I emphasize again, “not necessary for life and limb”