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Intro Econ 3: Profit & Cocaine

Planet Money Summer School

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The Economics of Illegal Drugs

When you make drugs legal, you end up making drug dealers richer, and you increase the level of crime. And you don't end up reducing drug use by that much - which we should remind people is the whole point of making drugs illegal. The most i ever made in one day was three million dollars went through my hands. Well, i could make uf of a million bucks. I could make anywhere from 400 thousand totwo hundred000 profit.

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