It is financial, but a bit more complex. A lot of the cooks had meth blow up in their faces. Restrictions on cold medicine grew. So? It became cheaper for cartels to make meth in Mexico & ship it here. Replaced pot as a commodity.
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I guess if they are recreational users, they don’t look like addicts. I dated someone who used it recreationally. I didn’t know that until after we were no longer together. He didn’t look like a tweaker (no bad skin, had his teeth, had gainful employment, etc).
There were a lot more people who did drugs in the 1970s and did really cool things & kept things together than who went the other way. Point? Criminalization only works for those who make $ from it.