From: c9221777@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Brother Redeye)
Subject: Drug prices around the globe (was Re: Drugs
Followup-To: alt.rave
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:59:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.235845.15075@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:
> I crossposted this to alt.drugs with Followup-To alt.rave so those of you
> in the UK without alt.drugs feeds might get some of the discussion...
> 
>>> I'd love to know what sort of drugs are going on in America just now.
>>> I don't mean Crack, I mean nice ones like E, Trips, Speed and Coke?
>>> (ie. Party drugs). How much does it cost? Is it easy to get? Are drug
>>> dealers dangerous people over there, shooting each other in the street?
> 
> Not for the most part.  If you know where to look you can get any kind of
> drug you want, though.  Marijuana is by far the easiest to get.  I don't
> know how much it costs.  LSD is $5 a hit most everywhere.  I know people
> who use coke and have used heroin... not sure how much those cost, either,
> but those people travel into seedier parts of town to get their stuff.
> I don't think they deal with any AK-47 toting thugs, though.  Some guy
> offered to sell me crack when I was walking into a record store across
> from campus one day last month.  He wasn't at all intimidating.

I would be interested to hear price comparisions for various drugs based on
where youare in the world.  In Australia, for example, LSD is quite expensive,
although it dpends on where you are.  In Newcastle it would go for $25 each;
pot at $25 a stick (the size of which will vary wildly); XTC used to be $35-$50
but now seems to have stabilised at $50; speed generally goes for $80-$100 per
gram weight; not sure about coke but I heard a figure of $150-$200 a gram
quoted at me. Don't know any real figures for Heroin (although Methadone
surpluses can be bought for around $10-$20) and to my knowledge PCP and crack
never made it here although they are supposed to be around in Sydney.

A 2 hour drive can mean a big difference in price an availability.  Sydney will
see you paying far more for MJ but less for synthetics.  The price for MJ can
vary even in the one place depending on the time of year, who you are and who
you know and the quantities you buy in: $30-$450 per ounce.  The regional
differences mean that you often get guys driving in from the country areas
selling grass dirt cheap while making a huge profit themselves.

E and acid are basically non-existant in country towns.

For referential purposes, the Australian dollar is worth about 45p (UK),
$US0.75, DM1.05 - any others can be referenced from this.

> 
>>This is something I've always wondered about. If you watch the news, etc, then
>  most major american cities are made out to be some kind of war zone, with drug
>  dealers/addicts runnning around killing everyone they see. Is this the case? M
> ost of the drug dealers I know (of) are actually not such bad people if you get
>  to know them. But then again, I don't (of) know any dealers who deal in the so
> -called "hard" drugs (heroin, crack etc), and the ones I do know,probably would
> n't touch them with a bargepole.

In fact, the number of dealers with their own personal army, paramilitary
weapons and evil laughs is quite rare.  Methinks the TV's been telling us fibs
again :)


--dave
Where the hell is my .sig?!

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