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> M_P
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>On Apr 6, 1:51 pm, anon3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bruce Watson) wrote:
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>> In Arkansas, where smoking was banned in prison in 2000, a $2 pack of
>> loose-leaf tobacco can turn a profit of $78. Does even heroin get that
>> kind of mark-up in a single transaction?
>>
>> http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/325134.html
>"The 6-inch by 4-inch white brick of pure Southeast Asian heroin
>(described as a unit in the opening paragraphs and priced at $3,000 at
>the refinery) generally is sold in New York City at a wholesale price
>of $70,000. [...] After being cut and resold on the street for $10 in
>50-milligram dime bags, a 700-gram unit of Southeast Asian heroin will
>generate $280,000 in sales." - The Price Dynamics of Southeast Asian
>Heroin, http://www.dea.gov/pubs/intel/01004-intellbrief.pdf
From this example, the answer is "no" since the prison tobacco markup is
3600 percent, where the heroin markup is only 400 percent.
However, the $2 pack of tobacco is bought legally, where the 6-inch by
4-inch
brick of heroin is smuggled illegally. My guess is the brick of pure
heroin
would probably cost around $1000 in a legal market (maybe $4000 after
adding
taxes)...
-Pete Zakel
(phz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)
"It was re****ted that Sens. William B. Spong (VA) and Hiram Fong (Hawaii)
got
their heads together to sponsor a bill recommending the mass ringing of
church bells to hail the arrival in Hong Kong of the U.S. Table Tennis
team
after its tour of communist China. Unfortunately, the motion died,
cheating
Congress out of passing the Spong-Fong Hong Kong Ping-Pong Ding-Dong Bell
bill."
-L.A. Times (sometime in March or April, 1996)
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