And there are plenty of people ready to sell. Currently, there is not much of a demand because website information that provides user reports tends to steer young people away from them. But as safer legal highs such as mephedrone are made illegal, these more risky chemical combinations become more attractive. Rather than stepping on to the wrong side of the law, some young people elect to take bigger chances with their health.
As a result, on both sides of the law, there are lucrative markets to be opened and exploited. We pay relatively little attention to the ways in which drugs, both legal and illegal, produce market opportunities. Successful entrepreneurs in these markets do not have to be breaking the law but they are invariably involved in morally unacceptable and ethically dubious activity. When economic incentives prevail, the law may be a blunt instrument in dealing with the problem.
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