Prices stabilize at what the market will bear. And everything in the supply chain is going up, so end product prices go up. And people are continuing to buy at inflated prices (albeit perhaps attenuated a bit) so prices stay high. When people slow their buying activities then prices will fall.
If you don't like today's prices, don't buy the product. But you can't blame 'price gouging' when others continue to buy the product at a price you deem too high.
And as others have pointed out, the issues of economics within an illegal market throws a whole other set of parameters into the discussion.