I’m not sure what your point is? You’re kind of proving them right. I guess you’re trying to equate drugs with crypto, saying if it was criminalized it would spike in price, but that’s a false equivalency. Drugs provide a utility all on their own they depend on users speculating about them just to have value. If anything the inverse applies here, but for the same reason, a currency that the government doesn’t want you to use will have less value because you’ll only be able to exchange it with nefarious organizations who can pick and choose the price. Drugs are expensive because the risk of them being illegal is factored in and the suppliers can demand whatever they want.