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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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More proof what a sheltered life I led, but then I was one of two in our class who didn’t drink beer much less anything else.
yeah but it’s about quality not quantity
$60-$80 for something that resembles potting soil...$250 for the stuff grown indoors and tended.
It was the amount of weed that fit easily into the lid of a can of Prince Albert (or similar) loose tobacco. It was an easy, if inexact, way to measure out an ounce in the days before all dope dealers carried balance scales on lanyards around their necks.
“Dave ain’t here, Man!”
..... priceless!
Hmmm, Google search of: elbow Marijuana measurement says -
One pound.
Thank you. That makes sense.
Thanks.
Who needs google when there are so many resident experts here today?
lolol
primeval patriot knows....
Elbow = LB
Anybody besides me know the true story of the Titianic.
Hint, the first and the rope, he just carries.
Felony territory that I steered far away from.
On the third time around the wheel house..............
Bong Hits For Jesus!
"No, man... I'M Dave!!..."
[chortle] [cough] [hack]...
The YouTube cartoon version (original audio track):
Sure you could stop the movement of drugs across the border. All that would do is stimulate replacements. If the supply of cheap Mexican marijuana is cut off, grow it at home. If cocaine is cut off, produce methamphetamines in the US. As long as the demand exists, there will be ways to fill that demand. Econ 101. It’s like a force of nature, even algore can’t stop a hurricane.
Do you remember the real title and who did it?
Seems appropos.
Very clever. And to think, all we had was a vinyl LP.
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