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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I suspect the word you're looking for is "fungible".
Yeah, but that vinyl LP produced more totally helpless laughs than we could ever count.
Even if we remembered 'em all, which we don't.
I just wish I'd kept the huge rolling paper in Big Bambu intact... I could sell it on eBay
Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.
LOL
$60 to $80 for an ounce.
Wouldn’t call that “cheap.” Tobacco’s a lot cheaper.
Ouch. Now I -really- feel old....
You must be, like, a million years old. Memories, eh?
Yes, and the good stuff from Hawaii was $20 per ounce.
At least that’s what somebody told me...
Yes I am. Just waiting for Santa.
That old story about Jack Johnson and 497-and-a-half feet of rope? Yeah, I’ve heard it.
This ship don’t haul no coal.
Everybody is going to wonder what we are talking about.
“You must be, like, a million years old. Memories, eh?”
You wouldn’t believe, something that people don’t remember about the sixties, is how much death and violence was involved. Death was a constant in my world back then.
I have lost friends at a rate of about one every three weeks at the height of our hard partying days.
$50 to $60 1/8th oz. ... guessing though
He said cocaine was a hellva drug.
The old timers always wax philosophically about how much cheaper pot was back in the day.
But according to the handy dandy inflation calculator, $10 in, say 1973, was worth about $47. So if one can get an ounce for $60, the price difference isn’t all that drastic.
I bought my first “lid”for EIGHT dollars back in 1967.GOOOOD stuff too.
Fifteen years later,the lovely”hippie chick”who sold it to me was found dismembered up in the Santa Cruz Mountains as the result of a rip-off and execution.
That ended the Sixties era for me.
How bout ‘ “ nickle bags ? “
Dave’s not here!
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