And you think that the crack cocaine problem would have never developed if we were still getting cocaine in our soda?
That's just nonsense. Drug addicts are always looking for a bigger better high. If they had to do it, they would distill the cocaine out of the soda just so they could make crack out of it.
If the cocaine was legal, they were going to eventually make crack with it. I know crack addicts. I've known dozens of them during my lifetime. They can't help themselves. They do as much of the drugs as they can for three days, then they crash, and sleep for a couple of days. When they are able, they get up and do it again, so long as they can keep finding a supply.
“Drug addicts are always looking for a bigger better high. If they had to do it, they would distill the cocaine out of the soda just so they could make crack out of it.”
Somewhat true.
But it would be their choice.
“I’ve known dozens of them during my lifetime. They can’t help themselves. They do as much of the drugs as they can for three days, then they crash, and sleep for a couple of days. When they are able, they get up and do it again, so long as they can keep finding a supply.”
Well, maybe we shouldn’t make criminals out of them for a start until we can do better medically.
“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.