[nickcarraway]

You really think Pfizer and Proctor & Gamble won’t find profit in it? They will make the Cartels look like Up With People.

[nathanbedford]

I expect they will, just as Seagram's and other distilleries make a profit on whiskey. But I think the market actually works and the price is fixed by demand and so the astronomical profits are taken out of the trade.

Much of the incentive to addict people will be removed. If you want to make the counter argument you might point to cigarettes and argue that tobacco companies gave free samples of cigarettes to soldiers etc. in an effort to addict them.

But there is a whole different dynamic involved.