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Originally Posted by pr0
A gram of quality weed = $15 .....a gram of quality powder cocaine = $80-150.....a gram of quality heroin = $100 - $350
I wouldn't say drug prices are competitive. A kilo of heroin = $50-100,000, a kilo of coke = $10,000-$30,000, a kilo of high quality marijuana = $4,000 - $7500
Way different fucking ball park 
Not to mention the aforementioned drug dealers are all in a very different class.
Get caught with a 2lbs of pot = 1 year in prison , get caught with 2lbs of heroin = life imprisonment..........therefor coke & heroin are a much more dangerous class of drug dealer, thus more violence = higher social cost & stigma |
I'm meant competitive in the sense of a "fix" (i can smoke a gram of weed, i would probably die from a gram of H... which is like 8 or 9 doses anyway)
$20 of crack/weed/meth was plenty to hold an addict over for a few hours until they want more
right on about the risks though... consider this though, the feds are as harsh on LSD as they are on heroin but average society doesn't classify LSD or hallucinogenics as 'bad' as heroin (or any drugs administered intravenously)
addicts define a larger part of the stigma, the violence / risk associated with the drugs are secondary (but close.. i'd say 60/40)
think about this... not many have anything bad to say about the guy that smokes up here and there yet still manages to function in society... but we all have something to say about the guy that isn't doing shit but bumming his way through life, scraping his bong, talking about hippy shit all day and always stoned to the point they have absolutely 0 drive