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"In Korvosa, for instance, where the use of shiver is tightly controlled, although not technically illegal, the price for a dose generally fluctuates around 25 gp."
When is it actually legal?
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As long as people pay the vice tax then it is legal.
But I believe the consumption of it is illegal.
Just because there's an accepted street value for something doesn't mean it's not illegal. Weed's got a cost too, yo.
That said, Page 5 of Guide to Korvosa spell out that there is no vice tax or Cerulean Society exclusion to the crime of possessing or consuming a drug (Shiver included). But also on 54, they predict that 1 in 10 Korvosans is currently addicted to one drug or another, so much like in the US, there is a bit of a perfect enforcement problem.
Just because there's an accepted street value for something doesn't mean it's not illegal. Weed's got a cost too, yo.
That said, Page 5 of Guide to Korvosa spell out that there is no vice tax or Cerulean Society exclusion to the crime of possessing or consuming a drug (Shiver included). But also on 54, they predict that 1 in 10 Korvosans is currently addicted to one drug or another, so much like in the US, there is a bit of a perfect enforcement problem.
The quote was taken from pathfinderwiki and apparently originally from the Edge of Anarchy module. In Guide to Korvosa it explicitly says that possessing or using shiver is illegal and that's why I was a bit confused.
After reading up on Devargo Barvasi I'm starting to wonder if the "tightly controlled" has to do with just his shiver business. From the hardback of CotCT p 50:
"Since Devargo pays his vice taxes and polices Eel’s End well enough that trouble here never impacts the city at large (including a strict policy of handing over anyone he realizes is trying to use Eel’s End to hide from the law), the Korvosan Guard rarely has any cause to send members out to visit Eel’s End."
Right, that doesn't mean he doesn't deal in the stuff under the table, pay off cops, etc. It just means that whatever drugs he sells, if he ever goes down, there's no "I pay my taxes." legal defense for that.