[Closed] Price of a sniff going up

Price wont go up, quality will go down - again!

They always massively exaggerate the value when they announce a drugs bust. By my reckoning you would need to be selling a gram of coke for £250 to get a street value of £300m from 1.2 tonnes (my maths is probably wrong to be fair 🙂 )

they do say that 1.2t pure = £50m, after cutting = £300m.
They should probably reduce the value by the price of citric acid though 🙂

grum - your calculations are correct

And Stoner probably right too seeing as street coke is around 15% pure at best

Pft. That's less than a week's supply for the City....

Figures deliberately sensationalised to make it seem all the more spectacular a bust. Like you can buy an ounce of hash for £80, off a bloke who paid £40 for it, off a bloke who paid £20 for it, etc etc etc and the grower wooduv sold the raw plant for a few pence an ounce. Plus, they could be evaluating it's 'value' if it were all turned into Crack, which would multiply it's 'value'.

I think it's about time all those City bankers etc started buying only Fair Trade coke. Y'know, the stuff where the impoverished farmers get a larger cut of the profits.

Figures deliberately sensationalised to make it seem all the more spectacular a bust. Like you can buy an ounce of hash for £80, off a bloke who paid £40 for it, off a bloke who paid £20 for it, etc etc et

Sounds just like the market in santa cruz bikes TBH

He said that was "equal to about one third of the requirement for the UK market over the course of a year".

BLOODY HELL! 😯

One third the UK's consumption per year in one bust? I can see a few of my South London friends getting a bit itchy having read that news! 😉

They always massively exaggerate the value when they announce a drugs bust. By my reckoning you would need to be selling a gram of coke for £230 each to get a street value of £300m from 1.3 tonnes (my maths is probably wrong to be fair

The haul was 90% pure it states, it would probably get cut to about 25% pure for the streets, so if it was sold for £50 a gram then the maths is not far off.

But even looking at the wholesale value of £50m that's one serious amount of sniff!

how much crack can you make from coke, and does it make financial sense if you discount the additional addictive qualities of crack over base?

Another devastating blow to bankers then.

Is there no end to the misery they have to endure ?

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Still, that article was a couple of years ago, and since they are doing just fine now, and it's everyone else who's getting shafted, I guess they might be able to take it in their stride.

Maybe theyll just stick to drinking the blood of suppressed workers. s'what I do.

Pft. That's less than a week's supply for the City....

Errrr... How many impoverished bankers work in the city these days? Let's just say it's 100,000 just to make the maths easy... And we'll say the 1.2 tonnes of pure Coke gets cut to 4 tonnes of not so pure...

So 100,000 bankers, 4 tonnes of Coke. Or 100,000 bankers and 4 million grammes of Coke.

You telling me that these bankers in the city are snorting 40g of Coke per week each? Or in other words, most of a f***ing Mars Bar in weight in Coke each week? And even buying in bulk, well that'd be a £1k per week habit at least!

Think you may be slightly out there... 😉

I wonder how many people are going to wind up dead for losing that amount of sniff, apart from the ones banged up for the next 20 years - I would imagine there are currently some seriously pissed off nasty bastards.

....that'd be a £1k per week habit at least!

No wonder the country is in such a mess 😐

Think you may be slightly out there...

Ok then, two week's supply... Not by all that much though. Seriously.

Grand a week habit? To some folk in the City, that's pocket money mate!

And you'd be amazed at the extent of some people's habits. Heroin addicts I've known can get through over a hundred quid a [i]day[/i] in gear. You do not want to know how they get the money to feed their habits though.

I wonder how many people are going to wind up dead for losing that amount of sniff, apart from the ones banged up for the next 20 years - I would imagine there are currently some seriously pissed off nasty bastards.

That's the bit I always think about whenever a big bust is announced. Someone's head is on the block, for sure. I've seen people get a kicking for owing a fiver!

how much crack can you make from coke, and does it make financial sense if you discount the additional addictive qualities of crack over base?

Thinking of starting a new business?

Re the cutting side of things....
I know a bloke at work who's son was busted for intent to supply. When being sentenced, the judge told him one of the reasons he wasn't getting a custodial was because the 'cocaine' was only 8% pure.....

What about VAT? oh and P&P.

You do not want to know how they get the money to feed their habits though.

These kind of non-facts always amuse me. How can the Police ever know how much of this stuff is coming in and being sold ? It's illegal n'est-ce pas ? Do they stand at the bars and borders doing a survey "excuse me, do you have five minutes to answer our questionnaire - how much cocaine you you have there sir, and would you say that is a representative sample of your average daily/weekly consumption/smuggling haul ?"

It's all made up, isn't it.

Yeah you say "some people are going to get a bit p**sed off" erm.. thats ok yeah, for sure drugs are illegal.. not preaching mind, keep that in mind please y'all..
But it's going to make a dent in the supply and thats fine by me.

I'm neither in favour nor not in favour of making drug legal BTW. I'm still undecided having only seen a teeeeny weeeeeny bit of the drug scene (if you call EPO the same stuff) so have no idea of the consequences/repercussions of adicts/suppliers etc.

I did find it funny that it took such a long time to find the stuff on the boat though, I mean, false tank empty yet the bilges were full of the stuff.. I mean c'mon, sure it's the second place you would look.. that and the fridge cooler tank/water tank and false gas bottles..

And before you preach I did know someone way way back who brought some hash into the counrty on a boat I was crewing back from Barbuda once, does that count??

I'm pretty sure that recent reports have shown that the Coke you buy to be cut to about 10%.

That means that my hoes are going to have to start charging the punters more if I'm going to continue to reinvest the money made from pimping back into feeding their coke addiction to keep them on the game.

How can a daddy afford to keep himself in furs and Mercedes AMGs these days? It's scandalous I tell you.

But that haul was apparently heading for holland wasn't it???

or less than that mr yeti... last thing i read was that it was barely coke at all, mainly amphetamines and caffeine i think

Yeah looks like it, probably to be "cut down" (cooo look at me all street talk and all that) to be returned back to the UK for erm.. cunsumption.

supply+demand, if the price goes up in holland, then the price will go up here too.

Tony won't be happy 🙂

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Coccaine users are SO boring

Hopefully this dent in supply will mean less shouty self obsessed people at parties and in pubs for a bit.

I wouldn't worry, all the shouty and self-obsessed people are up in Edinburgh for the next three weeks.

did the haul not happen back in june according to the report?? and was the boat not heading to holland?

so (a) it wasnt headed for the UK market and (b) if they were to drop some off then im sure the gap in the market has been filled by now

How is this guy gonna afford his addiction?

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Are all cocaine users shouty and self obsessed?

Interesting..

Do they work harder than non users? hmmm.. me thinks this country needs more productivity and output.. me thinks this could be a way of upping production..
hardy harrr harrr harrr

These kind of non-facts always amuse me. How can the Police ever know how much of this stuff is coming in and being sold ? It's illegal n'est-ce pas ?

The police are in on it! They're watching us. Shhhhh

Hopefully this dent in supply will mean less shouty self obsessed people at parties and in pubs for a bit.

This dent in supply means that more will be supplied to take its place.

Think of the tax revenues if it was legalised.

think of the marketing opportunities! 😉

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some v funny ones at http://cocaine.za.net/

cynic-al - Member

Think of the tax revenues if it was legalised.

oldie but a goodie, Al 😀

not just tax, if you apply it to heroin and crack too, health implications of crap/cut drugs versus a good quality clean supply (rich heroin addicts look far chirpier than poor ones in my professional experience). Oh, and crime: both organised crime in selling it and chasing'kidnapping/torturing people for their debts, and also to a much lesser extent burglaries. (people will still be addicted to smack and need to fund their habits after all).