Two wrongs don’t make a right. But sometimes two clichés make a decent joke. I was trying to avoid the whole “here’s a model in a dress that costs enough to hire a kindergarten teacher for a year” thing, not just because it is trite but because it isn’t funny. Likewise, the “supermodels do a lot of drugs” thing is done near to death. But put them together, and it can work I think.
UPDATE – I’ve never done this before, but the feedback was instantaneous and overwhelming. After the fear of dumbing it down on last strip, I swung too far to the side of obscurity and lost people. I have changed the strip. You can see it the old way here. Thanks for the feedback, all. As has been mentioned many times, I am usually too close to these things when writing them to tell. (Hit ctrl-refresh or ctrl-f5 if you don’t see the newer art.)
I dont think the farmes get that much of the profit. As far as I know the stuff they produce gets an awful lot more expensive once it reaches a country where it´s illegal. That´s why smuggling it is so lucrative, I heard stories of organisations buying small planes in colombia, flying to the US, selling their cargo and then selling the plane for whatever price, it doesn’t matter. They could buy 10 planes with the profit they made by smuggling.