A Mexican drug cartel looked at Charlie Sheen's cocaine orders and decided he had to be a dealer. He was just smoking it himself. Nearly 4.5 pounds in three weeks. That's roughly 2,000 grams, about 97 grams a day. A heavy recreational user goes through 3 to 5 grams daily. Sheen was consuming at 20x that rate, outpacing the cartel's actual distribution clients whose entire job was reselling it. The cartel did what no institution in Hollywood would. They ran a risk assessment on their most profitable customer and walked away. Their reasoning: anyone moving that volume is either a dealer creating competition or a spotlight creating law enforcement attention. The revenue wasn't worth the exposure. CBS was paying Sheen $1.8 million per episode at the time. His agents were negotiating raises. Warner Bros kept writing checks. The entire entertainment industry watched a man consume cocaine at wholesale distribution volume and responded by making him the highest-paid actor in television history. His own dealer eventually staged an intervention. Started replacing the cocaine with increasing amounts of baking soda until Sheen was smoking pure baking soda. A street-level drug dealer ran a more effective harm reduction program than every agent, manager, and studio executive in Los Angeles. Sheen's peak net worth hit $150 million. He later sold his Two and a Half Men residuals, estimated at $100 million lifetime value, for $27 million. Current net worth: roughly $3 million. The only entity in Charlie Sheen's orbit that accurately priced the risk of his behavior was a Mexican drug cartel. They were also the only ones who stopped enabling it.