Cocaine now cheaper than a cappuccino

[NVMojo]

the imports from Bush's Afghanistan must be helping things out ...

The Guardian:

The failure of the government's policy to stem drug imports is revealed today by research which shows that Britain is awash with cheap drugs, with a line of cocaine now costing less than a cappuccino.

The price of ecstasy, heroin, crack, cocaine and cannabis has tumbled to a record low in the last year, as dealers pumped ever greater quantities onto the market, encouraging hundreds of thousands of people to become regular users.

The failure by customs and police to smash trafficking gangs and cut off supplies to the streets is an embarrassment for Tony Blair.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,1386240,00.html

[Webster Green]

1. Great news!

Prices have been too high for too long.

[NVMojo]

2. LOL!!!

I've been worried about the price of coffee since the tsunamis ...some good beans come from over there ...

[Piperay]

6. Yeah, me too

coffee is my 'drug' of choice and I hope it doesn't get anymore expensive. :argh:

[Richard Steele]

10. The "invisble hand" is rolling $20 bills into coke-straws...

See? Do you SEE?
Giving the 'MARKET' free reign is the solution to EVERYTHING!

FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!

Or have I just had too much coffee?

[Downtown Hound]

3. Maybe I should move to Britian...

[Psephos]

4. Point well-taken, but coca doesn't grow in Afghanistan

only opium poppies...a problem that is already bad and going to get worse (or better, if you're an addict).

[Webster Green]

5. And some killer pot too, of course!

Skunky Kush!

[indigobusiness]

23. ot...Hey Webster

Mind if use a couple of your images on my blog, I'll hotlink 'em to your estore?

[Webster Green]

30. Go for it!

That's what they are for.:hi:

[aquart]

9. Yeah, I thought we had all these contract mercenaries

Taking care of the cocaine problem.

By undercutting the regular suppliers?

[indigobusiness]

21. Au contraire, Pierre

Some legendary hash comes from Afghanistan...I've heard...or so they tell me...I wouldn't know...nevermind.

[NVMojo]

25. they are growing marijuana too!!!

[Piperay]

7. If they can't stop all the drugs

how the hell are they going to stop the importation of terrorism. :eyes: x(

[Psephos]

8. War on Terrorism uses the old War on Drugs manual

and seems headed for the same rousing success.

[benburch]

11. Now...

Where is the cheap Afghani hashish????

[theorist]

13. That's easy.

In Afghanistan. I doubt it's cheap by the time it gets here, but if you want to take a trip to Central Asia, then I'm game, too. Well.... you'll probably need the hash and heroin to deal with the place. It's not exactly comfortable living.

[DarkSim]

17. Here quite near central asia....

in china, hashish is now cheaper than normal cigarrettes.

[Reverend Smoothfield]

12. is there a standardized length for "lines" of cocaine?

if not these stories are meaningless. i propose one quarter of the distance between the collarbone and nipple of the average minor-league underwear model.

[rodeodance]

14. cappichino prices are too too high!!

[jmowreader]

27. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too

The Fayettenam coffee shops are charging around four bucks for a "tall" cappucino. So I'd imagine it's double that, once you figure in the VAT, the "value-added tax" which is really a national sales tax, in England. At the current exchange rate, which is essentially $2/1GBP, a cappucino would be 4GBP.

Cocaine, on the other hand, has no VAT.

According to http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com (wonderful site, very little government bullshit), the street price for coke in the UK is between 30 and 60 British pounds per gram. If you can get ten lines out of a gram of cheap blow, you're looking at a 3GBP line versus a 4GBP cappucino.

The solution, as rodeodance has noted, is to get the caffeine pushers to cut THEIR prices.

Then again...how many people do you know who sit there with a cup of joe to the left and a line of blow to the right and think, "now which one of these should I do?"

[chenGOD]

28. Who the hell gets 10 lines out of a gram?

I'd say 5 or 6 maximum...

not that I'd know....

[shadowknows69]

29. I wouldn't know either

but for purely scientific reasons does anyone have this dealers phone #?

[shadowknows69]

15. I second that. Maybe a little longer.

;)

[livinginphotographs]

19. Depends on the height of the model.

There's all kinds of variables to take into account in that scenario.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

16. Gotta keep those unemployed Brits under control, you know.

[livinginphotographs]

18. Thanks George!

Finally, finally, ONE thing that I can applaud George for doing.

[tanyev]

20. A free market success story!

[NashVegas]

22. Let's Flood All of Europe With Cheap Drugs

So their population, too, can become just as complacent as America's.

[havocmom]

24. Hush, don't tip them off to the plan. *wink wink nudge nudge*

:P

[Logiola]

26. with the american dollar so low

It will continue to drop till euros are the money of choice for the dealers..