Furthermore, as prohibition pushes the price of the addictive product higher, aggregate payments by buyers increase in almost the same proportion. In the graphs below, the quasi-rectangular green areas represent the total amount of money expended by all the buyers in the market. (Area = height width = price P quantity Q.) Here we assume that narcotics enforcement doubles the price of the good. As a consequence, the green area in the right graph, representing money expended in the black market, is almost twice the corresponding area in the left graph.