
there has to be more drugs around the state of Monroe, cocaine is something that is long waited and its system should be more advanced than something like moonshine.
To make it you need a starter kit that you have to set it somewhere open but hidden, you have to interatct with it every 8 hours for days, so you go interact, wait 8 hours and come and interact with it for 2 times. when it is done, you get a brick of cocaine. now with 3 of those and a fold box you can make a cocaine box, in your crafting menu, or you can break the brick into 10 small packs of cocaine powder.
The packs you can sell to locals like you do moonshine, while the box, you have to get to a smuggler, a number of smugglers will be around monroe by the water, and depends where is the sumggler and how many times you interact with him, determins the price he will give you.
You should also encoraged to sell it in big numbers so you can sell the cocaine boxes from 1 - 6 boxes, the boxes cant be placed on the back of a horse and can only be transported in wagons.
the more boxes you got the more of a chance there will be to alert law, and the more time the smuggler needs to move the boxes, but in return selling more boxes at once will give you a higher reward,
for example: you got 1 box of cocaine, you go to the smuggler and ask to sell, you drop the boxes to him and tell him that your good to go, he starts moving the goods into his boat and he ask you to protect him he needs 5 mins to do it, now it is just one box there is a 15% chance people saw you and alert law and even if the law was alerted the witness will say he saw someone moveing 1 box, but because it is a small package for the work, he pays you 300$ if done correctly.
example 2, you got a wagon of 6 boxes full of cocaine you go to the smuggler, this time there is alot more goods to move, the smuggler needs 15mins to move the goods and you need to help him while he moves the good, now that you are moving alot of stuff, there is a good chance someone saw you and alerted law something like 90% and they will be sure to tell the law that they saw loads of boxes there. once done because it was a risky and a big load, the smuggler will pay you 2400$ for them all.
now this system has to have limits, for example you cant sell to the smuggler unless there was 4 or more law man, this way you avoid people selling the quiet hours.
The crime should also be punished with a good time and fine because of its high reward.
This system requries alot of work and planning and selling things can result of very high punishment and consequences and the higher the chance of them is the higher the inticibited reward.
The cocaine can aslo be sold like moonshine in samll packages, giving players who are into that more options to sell them

Apologies if I’m wrong, but isn’t cocaine not actually illegal?

Howdy! Druundev is correct! Cocaine is not illegal and was often times used in medicine. If you go to a doc while injured and say you hurt real bad, there is a good chance they will RP give you cocaine to ease the pain.
That being said, more crim activities and drugs is something talked about often and I believe is intended to be a part of a future update :D