[mugs99]

Illegal drug expense isn't the issue.
It most certainly is. Heroin was expensive and scarce before the war on drugs. Now it's cheap and plentiful thanks to the war on drugs. The same is true for all illegal drugs.

Problems are we have people self medicating for recreation.
That is dangerous and beyond stupid.
It may be stupid and dangerous, but in a free republic government does not have the right to stop stupidity. The people have the Constitutional right to be as stupid as they want to be.
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[A CA Guy]

Heroin is cheaper because people are getting more advanced in labs, resources are cheaper and many moved on to use it along with their pot.

When people are out of control and break the laws that are created by elected officials, they get to go to jail before they can damage other even worse.