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So cartels become pharmaceutical companies? lol

Illicit ones, yes, absolutely.

So if you cut the arse out of any industry it either dies or changes.

We agree. It's not like the cartels have stood pat throughout the now decades-long war on drugs. Tougher law enforcement means higher costs for the cartels. Higher costs means changes. For example, poppy production in Mexico has gone WAY up just in the last few years. No more importing from South America.

Now if drug companies are so inept that cartels can produce black market substances at a lower cost to the consumer then 100% this would continue to happen.

Are the drug companies inept? Or are they just made hopelessly non-competitive by crushing government regulations?

And the cartels dont' necessarily have to produce at a lower cost. They just need to sell at a lower cost until the customer is addicted.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/02...-epidemic.html