[MrLeRoy]

not exactly a plethora of choices

That's putting it mildly. There certainly are not "plenty of legal ways to get wasted"---there's basically ONE way (of no appeal to those looking for a stimulant).

Who risks that---the dealer? He's not looking to get wasted but to make big profits.

I have no sympathy [...]

Beside the point---which is that it's economically rational to be willing to risk massive jail time, losing everything you own, and so forth for big crack-selling profits and be unwilling to risk legal profits to avoid the relatively small costs of legally handling pollutants.

[dennisw]

Right. So your solution is to make these poisons cheaper, more widely available and legal. Making more addicts and family tragedies has no bearing on your twisted libertarianism/libertinism. You figure you are above all that so F 'em. Even if some of these addicts served and fought for this country

Not very clever or nice LeRoy.