6. Become a coke lord.

This isn't going to apply to everyone, of course... but if you have access to piles cocaine and know the original source, you can simply make sure that you outcompete these people in their own distribution areas.

It's a difficult proposition - one of the first tricks is to snitch off "disloyal" distributors, leaving only your own in the vacum, but one could in theory offer better prices at better quality to force these people out of the market. Skip your own profit margin. Kick it all upstairs so that they can buy out these guys' bribes. Become a partisan financier in a cartel war.

Anyone who needs tips on purifying cocaine, let me know - even if it's just for informational purpouses. A simple acid/base extraction can get rid of talcum powder and other nonalkaloidal cuts, cold water and cocaine's massive solubility as a hydrochloride salt (a little over a gram per ml) can severely reduce the amount of amphetamine-et-al in it, and then there's distillation and chromatography.

It's not for everyone. There's a rather famous case in which someone who had just manufactured a large quantity of synthetic opiods, having no experience in the scene, approached a janitor with "you're black, can you help me move some drugs?" - and got the response he deserved for his well-thought-out plan. 'n those who have a ready distribution basis often still run into the "I have no idea where this coke comes from" problem at which point one is better off doing the "straightedge-thug impersonation kick." Just say no to coke...

...but if one has the resources to actually know one's entire upstream distribution chain, one is at a good place to invert the process - flood them out of the market with cheap, high-purity cocaine while snitching off those who have the "wrong" distribution network.

I... thought I'd at least put it on the list. Anything for the cause...