How does the Cartel make so much money when the percentage of people using drugs is so low?

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This whole post is referring to this statistic: [https://www.statista.com/statistics/443460/percentage-of-population-that-has-used-illicit-drugs-by-drug/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/443460/percentage-of-population-that-has-used-illicit-drugs-by-drug/)

The cartel is so rich and has so much power which makes me wonder how the hell are they making so much money if there’s quite a low of percentage of people using drugs.

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You states say about 1% of the population uses hard drugs worldwide.

A $100/week habit (very, very cheap for many drugs, some users will spend twice that in a day) is $5200*3.3 million = $17 billion/year just in the US.

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