> Selling drugs is much more convenient and profitable, for example.
I know its not related to the original topic, nor the core point of your comment but I'd be fascinated to know why you think this.
Based on my knowledge of the market WRT wholesale prices/retail (street) prices/legal risks/product expiry/supply chain reliability as well as just the statistics around anyone towards the bottom few levels of the pyrmaid on this I'm almost certain that this is roughly never the case.
I find it interesting that this assumption seems to still exist, and suspect that a suprising number of people would harbor a fallback position of "if shit gets really bad I could just sell drugs" which makes a lot of assumptions about how profitable it could possibly be.