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I see where this is going haha. I'd imagine it'd depend on the quality of the substance and the processing it's gone through. For instance, if it's of pharmaceutical origins, yes it would. But that quantity of pharmaceutical-grade smuggled drugs would both be hard to transport and hard to acquire. As well as [u]incredibly[/u] valuable. For the sake of creating an interesting scenario, I'm going to say he has a small quantity of pharmaceutical-grade splinter in crated pill bottles in his room, as well as a few other crates stashed in a few other places. In his room, about 1kg of Splinter in pill bottles, but it's in a crate, so the Krite may have some struggle moving it. In other places in the ship stashed may be another 4kg of the crated pharmaceutical splinter. And the other 25kgs is mostly stashed in various sections of the bulkhead, in the form of powder bricks (like coke or ket), and though valuable, a brick splinter isn't nearly as valuable as the same quantity of pharmaceutical splinter. It's probably most comparable to the ket trade: pharmaceutical shit is worth big bucks, because of it's high quality. And brick goods of unknown quality are worth less, but fair easier to hide and transport, as well as acquire.
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Not an expert on this, but pills are for immediate use - that's a charge for distribution, just for having them. Makes handy bribes. 

But bricks of unknown quality? High quality bricks go for big bucks, because they can be further processed into crates of pharma-grade product, or stretched further for street sales. Low quality bricks, and the seller might get lucky to break even. Bricks of unknown quality? That's a rip-off unless it's raw unprocessed product. If it's tainted goods, unusable, and one might not survive the exchange.

Or worse, it's stolen from someone else. Hope none of it is marked, it's awkward to return stolen product back to the original owners.