Going Shopping

GOING SHOPPING?

Lower prices? Higher quality? In this economy we are all looking for lower prices and higher quality, whether we are buying a car or tomatoes – or even cocaine.

It is easy to look at stats and speculate whether the cocaine cost less and is more potent. We can talk about this all day long and some experts might come across as sounding pretty educated on the topic of cocaine price wars. The difference is that these price wars are fought with guns and people die.

I suggest that these “experts” leave the ivory tower for a moment and figure out how to reduce the demand for cocaine. It might take a little bit of work, but it is possible and desirable if one cares at all about human life.

It starts with effective drug education. It works and there are studies to prove it.

Narconon Drug Treatment and education 877-413-3073

The Drug (Statistics) War: Is Cocaine Getting More Expensive?

By Marc Lacey

To show that President Felipe Calderon of Mexico is making inroads in his battle against drug traffickers, the United States government points to the rising price of cocaine. The average price per gram of cocaine in the United States increased 21 percent, to $117.72 from $97.01, from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2007, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

But the Washington Office on Latin America, an advocacy group in Washington, takes issue with the D.E.A.’s analysis.

In a report released this week, WOLA points out that there has been a general downward trend in cocaine prices in recent decades, despite the occasional spikes, indicating that crackdowns on cocaine trafficking are not working. Cocaine purity has largely held steady, the group says, citing new data released by the Obama administration:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/the-drug-statistics-war-cocaine-prices/