This story can’t be true because according to libertarian drug advocates, drugs just mellow you out as you eat your thanksgiving turkey and dealing drugs is a legitimate business just like running a dentistry practice.
Depends on the drug
Supplying said commodity can be profitable in the presence of prohibition, hence the violence. Remember Al Capone. For that matter, Joe Kennedy.
Yes... we found out my daughter was living with a drug dealer... after she was shot. She still says he was just trying to make ends meet. They will say it’s because drugs are illegal, I am not sure what the data support. I do know both my kids smoked pot and my daughter, well she lived w a drug dealer.