@dyckron @Bwacton demand reduction (which needs as many carrots as well as sticks, but can make a dent in middle class usage patterns) requires significant public sector investment, the USA barely has any public sector apart from cops and they seem to have deployed them all to chase brown/black people on spurious grounds.

The popularity of cocaine in USA and elsewhere is as much driven by capitalism and prohibition by anything else (it clears the system fairly quickly, so doesn't always show up in drug tests, and USA doesn't even always swab test drivers for DUI like many European countries now do) - also its short action means folk can usually still go to work the next day and not attract attention (unlike other partydrugs cause more insonmia and also have a much longer recovery period)