See its traditional use in leaf form. It's way less potent and it's a lot easier to tell if something is wrong with a leaf than if someone cut something into a powder post inspection.
Potency with coke is a real problem. It's TOO good. And we get it refined in large part because of our silly policing policies around it. It's silly to be policing a leaf the way we do when there's coffee beans lining our shelves.
Let's be real, if you're in power in Russia do you want a lot of wounded returning home from this war? Every soldier returning from the front is a potential threat to your narrative.
We've lost track of nuclear waste in the US. Not far from Pittsburgh they have a cleanup site where waste was once dumped. Funny thing about paper records is they deteriorate a lot faster than nuclear waste. They started the cleanup and realized there was a whole lot more than what was originally expected.
Snake's got a leg
It's one only she can see
And she'll get so many legs
That she'll run in ways we'll never ever see