Posted on 12/24/2007 5:40:35 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
The popular drug's prices have changed little in 25 years
A car, a home, a gallon of milk — most everything costs more now than a generation ago. Except a baggie of Mexican marijuana.
Give or take a few dollars, authorities say, pot grown in Mexico and sold in Houston and other Texas cities still goes for about the same price as 25 years ago: $60 to $80 for an ounce.
In economic terms, marijuana is far cheaper since the decade when a three-bedroom home in upscale West University cost $150,000, a new ride was less than $6,000 and first lady Nancy Reagan urged kids to "Just Say No."
"I guarantee you it is probably cheaper than it was back in the day," said Lt. Gray Smith of the Houston police narcotics division. "Since I've been in the dope business, it has been pretty much the same," he said of prices during 20 years of monitoring sales.
Others agree.
"I don't care if you put 10 Marine divisions along the Mexican border, you are never going to be able to stop the movement of drugs, marijuana, across the border," said Mike Vigil, the Drug Enforcement Administration's former chief of international operations.
The problem is not only that the 2,000-mile-long border is huge, but also that the U.S. depends on people and commerce being able to freely flow in and out of the country.
"If you were to search everything, you'd have lines going back 100 miles," Vigil said.
Although rarely bestowed with the infamy or educational focus of other illegal substances, the dried, greenish-brown plant remains the most-used illicit drug in the United States, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Seizures have climbed
An estimated 97 million Americans age 12 or older have smoked marijuana, according to....
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Wow. Even mexican dirt weed costs a LOT more than that in NJ. Er, uh, so I’ve read.
$60 to $80 for an ounce?
Why I remember when it was $10.
(Just don’t ask how I knew that)
$60 to $80 for an ounce?........Got any cell #’s?......
ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
This is gonna turn into one of those stupid “libertarian” doobie threads real quicklike.....dat’s what I think.
What the hell is a lid?
What did Rick James once said
Mary Jane is hellva of drug
I don’t touch the stuff these days but I’ve no doubt this report is accurate.
$100 an oz maximum for Mexican weed in Texas has been a consistent price for almost two decades
One ounce.
It’s $60 to $80.
As per the article.
thanks
“Hellva of drug”
???
Must have been stoned to the bone when he said that.
lolol
Before your time.
Yep, remember when they were called “dime bags” ($10 ounce bag, also known as a lid) … read that somewhere back in the day. ;-)
Yeah he was LOL!
“Why I remember when it was $10.”
$10.00 was the normal price for many years, but there was a period where it dropped down to $6.00 for an ounce.
I wonder how many people remember when you could buy a ‘matchbox’.
Of course, that was also back in the day when minimum wage was $1.50 or so … a days wages for a lid. LOL!
Theres a lot of dopey drug language I never actually heard any one use.
Have you ever heard someone actually use the term Groovy?
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