ok, so there isn't a commodities market for drugs, and they wren't moving it in enough of a quantity that they were making much from the price fluctuations because there wasn't that much coke on earth. the most someone could make on such subtle price fluctuations would have been 5pt shit, and only if they were Pablo Escobar sitting on a Pablo Escobar-sized stash selling it all to someone else at once... and Pablo Escobar couldn't have given a shit about a 5pt shift in the value of cocaine.

and these aren't guys who really tracked the minute-by-minute price fluctuations of this on some sort of Drugs NASDAQ, so it's likely that nobody ever would have been aware. so the math of this just doesn't really make sense.

now do you see why I called this "reductionist bullshit"?