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From an economics perspective the solution is to legalize everything. Black markets cause incentives like this.


Yep. Meth costs pennies to make. Sell it cheap in liquor stores and nobody would do this any more.


Meth is already incredibly cheap. Meth addicts would definitely still engage in this behavior even if meth were free, because they still need money for rent, gas, food, whatever.




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