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[The Stand] Why didn't Randall Flagg allow vices in Las Vegas?

In a scene in the mini series, a couple of guys sitting around a campfire mention that Flagg didn't allow hookers, dope or drinking in Vegas. Why was this? 

You'd think the "evil" city would allow people to partake of their vices. Obviously those in Flagg's inner circle (like Lloyd) were allowed these things.  

And since I'm sure Mother Abigail's community wouldn't allow those things either, (except drinking apparently) where's a dude gotta go in post-SuperFlu America to have a good time?
gpt
Think of it like this: He's not trying to build the Weimar Republic. More like the Third Reich.

You want productive, obedient workers, not ones that are freebasing junkies. 

It's a world full of pharmacies just ripe for the looting, full of oxycodone and amphetamines. All it takes is one guy to come up from Cartel territory in Mexico with a truck full of coke and heroin, and the city could become a junkie-infested, unproductive town. It's not like there's a whole hell of a lot of people left, and a few kilos of heroin is a lot of doses, let alone when someone brings in a ton of the stuff in a cargo-truck.

He wants an army of soldiers, not junkies. Now, if it came down to the actual war between Boulder and Vegas, for the big push, he might have his pilots pop go-pills, his tank drivers loaded up on amphetamines, ala the Blitzkrieg, but for a productive society on a day to day basis, you can't have everyone high out of their minds. 

I think Mother Abigail's community had a pretty permissive drug policy to be honest.