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Friday, 17 July, 2009
New street drug economies emerge from anti-pot push
Crackdowns on cannabis production and consumption are having at least one major impact on the streets—namely they’re causing marijuana prices to skyrocket, according to recent reports in the Swiss media. In fact, a gramme of marijuana now reportedly costs roughly the same—about 30 francs—as a gramme of heroin, which has seen its prices fall from about 500 francs per gramme over the past 20 years. WRS’s Catherine Allen spoke to Thilo Beck, Medical Director of the Association for Risk Reduction and a leading prevention expert, to find out if the changing street prices are changing drug use habits.
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