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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The percentage is low, but what’s the actual number of users?

Assuming the USA, the bar on the right shows 3%. That equates to 10million users. Globally, that’s 243 million users.

What’s the average daily spend on drug use? Assuming cannabis, 0.5 gram per joint is approx $5. 2 joints a day would be $10.

That’s 100million dollars, per day, assuming 3 percent of the population smokes on average 2 joints.

This is a pretty conservative figure, any only accounts for 1 type of drug in the us. All illicit drugs across the globe? Much, much higher.

To put it into perspective, Apple’s annual revenue equates to around 250million per day in the USA (based on 2018 revenue figures).

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