“And you think that the crack cocaine problem would have never developed if we were still getting cocaine in our soda?”
“If the cocaine was legal, they were going to eventually make crack with it. I know crack addicts.”
Like civilian guns, crack cocaine is never going to be eradicated.
However, each cocaine soda buyer would only be able to buy so much per month. A DEA order system might track purchases.
If it gets boiled down by the ninth of the month, replacement bottles might officially be five times the price.
A friendly neighbor might sell you his, but it would be illegal.
The normal price of the soda might be increased 50% for each incident officially found to the buyer. The friendly neighbor would repent in a jail or pay a stiff fine.
A $5 two-liter bottle might then cost the overenthusiastic buyer $7.50 each for say five years.
Instead of paying say $150/month for a soda habit, the crack habit would run maybe $600/month at the least in a neighborhood of friendly resellers.
The soda wouldn’t be sold in a store. A customer would have to pay for a delivery service.
There might also be cocaine soda parlors.