It is quite startling how completely the war on drugs has failed when you see charts like this

Economics is beautiful ✨

The war on drugs was aimed at preventing drug deaths though. Most drug deaths were caused by adulteration of the drug. So if purity has increased, it kind of has worked?

So cocaine users are actually getting a better product?

Perhaps we misunderstood the goal of the war?

perfect example of a market economy this !!

That's the drug of choice of the people responsible for the war on drugs.

I prefer to think of it as a measure of our success in the war on baking soda and paracetamol

My econ-101 teacher would be proud of that chart.

Moore’s Law.

Capitalism undefeated