The price of street drugs has been steadily dropping in the UK. DrugScope, an NGO drug information clearinghouse and lobbyist group, surveyed more than 2,000 people last year to see what they were paying for their cocaine, ecstasy, pot, and other drugs. Cannabis resin is down £2 from 2004 to £43/ounce. Coke went from £65 a gram to £44 and a tab of E fell from £9 to less than £3. From The Independent:
There are a number of factors involved in what is rapidly becoming a "buyer's market", according to drugs counsellors. The decreasing purity of some drugs is one reason for the fall in prices, as dealers import drugs and then adulterate them with other, cheaper chemicals in an attempt to hang on to their profit margins.
Another more fundamental reason for the steady drop in prices is that traffickers are flooding Britain with illegal drugs, because demand has increased.
