I've traveled the world and I have noticed two facts about ??The States? compared to other* nations.

1. America is the land of rampant, over the top, drug use.

2. America is the land of rampant, over the top, drug prohibition.

Nobody else puts the time, money, or tenacity as us to chemically alter our minds. If it can be smoked, snorted, huffed, injected, or digested we will do it.

At the same time we are by far the most willing to submit to a police state in which overly harsh draconian laws put a greater percentage of our countrymen in jail than any other developed nation.

Naturally, this has created a sophisticated and complex black market where a wide variety of intoxicants await the consumer. Who in turn, must be shrewd and a careful bargainer.

Combine this with America??s natural love of the free market system and abundance and it only makes sense that we would expect a variety of products and prices.




*For the sake of this post I will only compare Western Democracies. It makes no sense to compare the USA??s drug enforcement to nations like (PRC) China where 5g of cocaine warrants execution. Or India, where cannabis grows wild everywhere but nobody uses it.