How are drugs made cheaper by ‘cutting’ with something that can be even more powerful than the original drug?

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How are drugs made cheaper by ‘cutting’ with something that can be even more powerful than the original drug?

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Answer 1

Let’s say you have a kilo of pure uncut cocaine. Lets say you can sell each gram at 300$. If you sell it pure you’ll make 300,000$. However if you take four kilos of cutting agents and other drugs, you can sell each gram of 20% pure cocaine at 100$ but now you have five kilos of cut cocaine, so you make 500,000$ with the same amount of cocaine. In comparison the cutting agents cost next to nothing.