The Lunar Society: Always The Bigger Fish

"As always thank you for coming out. It's an honor to be visited by Elysian Royalty."

"The honor is all ours, Tyron. Your show is the talk of the town." Demetrius complimented him.

"It's so warm and cozy here. How can we not visit?" Ambrosia asked.

"As polite as always. That's what we love about you. If you don't mind though, we do have some questions for you."

"Go right ahead." Demetrius urged him.

"Alright then. My first question has to do with the large quantities of insulin you've been purchasing lately. Is there perhaps a sickness in the family?"

"Not even close. The Diavolo Family are the picture of health. Rather, it's all for the greater good. As I'm sure you're aware, insulin is still rather overpriced for the average person. So we decided to purchase large amounts of it to sell back to the people on the cheap while Diavolo Industries works on developing our own cheaper hyper efficient answer. Rest assured, we are very close to putting these greedy giants out of work while helping those in need."

The truth of course was that it was stolen and smuggled in while they also bribed truckers to fake hijackings and sold their goods but the idea was still the same. Helping people in need made for amazing PR after all. The fact that they were making an absolute fortune doing so made it all the sweeter. Besides, it was all for a good cause so who cared?

The audience cheered and clapped for the Diavolos. Tyron nodding along with them. He smiled and placed a hand over his heart. "The Devils Who Descended From Heaven. Truly you are a blessing. But what about the rumors your family has been experimenting with Heroin and other drugs? Do you have an answer for that?"

"Yeah I saw this coming." Demetrius chuckled. "Allow me to put your hearts at ease. The only drug experiments going are happening in the Diavolo Industries Laboratories. For you see, we are working on developing a synthetic form of heroin that works by skin patch and prevents the user from building a tolerance, making each hit as strong as the first. See, it's like this. Intravenous drug users contract diseases like HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and similar diseases at particularly high rates because they share syringes, facilitating the spread of these diseases. For some numbers describing the harm from dirty needles:
An estimated 50 to 60 percent of New York City’s 200,000 to 250,000 needle-drug addicts have already been infected, and AIDS was their leading cause of death back in 1985.

Infected addicts, in turn, transmit the virus to their sexual partners, a process already responsible for the overwhelming majority of non-Haitian heterosexually transmitted AIDS cases . . . Dr. André Nahmias of Emory University said that nearly all of the AIDS-infected infants born in the United States, estimated at between 2,000 and 4,000 a year, are the offspring of I.V. drug users.

The criminalization of drugs has made it difficult to access clean syringes, making the drugs more dangerous. Thus, intravenous drug users become infected with diseases, largely from dirty syringes. After their infections, they spread the diseases to their sexual partners and, sometimes, newly-born infants.

Even here in the Republic, governmental criminalization of drugs has often also made it difficult to access clean syringes, making the drugs more dangerous and easier to spread. As in many other ways, the drug war makes drug use more dangerous and compounds drug problems by making the use of dirty needles much more widespread than if drugs were legal.

With the government making heroin use more dangerous and the frequency of conveniently sharing needles regardless of the accessibility of clean needles, our artificial innovative heroin thus solves a major social problem—the spread of diseases among intravenous drug users. Through our products, heroin users could easily protect themselves from now commonly spread diseases by using heroin like a clean tattoo, ending the danger of dirty needles. By providing a higher quality, safer product, our heroin would save countless lives and reduce a lot of misery." Demetrius explained to him and the crowd.

Additionally, this creates a second, unambiguously wonderful innovation in the heroin market: a cure for heroin addiction. Though heroin addiction may be caused by social factors in addition to biological ones, we'll be producing a drug people can use to end their heroin addictions because, without building a tolerance, heroin addicts would not need to continually have more and more heroin to achieve the same high." Ambrosia added. "Heroin primarily ruins people’s lives when the addiction eventually destroys them. By innovating a solution to heroin addiction, we'll effectively transform heroin into an expensive pleasure without the harmful side effects, solving many of the other harms and social ills it causes."
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In short, they'd be making billions legally while cornering the medical and recreational markets. All while making themselves look like saints.

"Does that answer your question?"

"Wow. Yeah, that'll, uh, that'll answer that question. The Devils From Heaven, Ladies And Gentlemen!"

The audience erupted into wild cheers and applause