[Alex3917]

> Each time, potentially being cut down.

Drug potency follows something like an S-curve. As enforcement increases a drug will get increasingly stepped on, until the purity is low enough that the drug gets replaced with a more potent analog. Consumer Reports wrote about this in their guide to drugs from the 70s.

[kakarot]

> Consumer Reports . . . guide to drugs

Whoa. Care to further elaborate?

[Alex3917]

It’s free online: The Consumer Union guide to licit and illicit substances.

[kakarot]

I will check it out today, thank you!