ketamine was available for cheap as fuck from chinese chem supply places when legal, just because you know people who were paying £40 doesn't mean everyone was.
i agree there is a level of mass ketamine abuse here that is due to the price but people are obviously going to be pissed off when their drug of choice doubles in price aren't they?
unlike mdma, ketamine is still legal in a lot of countries, i think when people were paying £40/g it was from diverted medical supply and the huge drop in price has come from new huge manufacture of the stuff since recreational use kicked off massively. the synthesis is harder on a technical level to mdma from what i understand, just a lot easier as the chemicals aren't on the same global shitlest as safrole, mdp2p etc.