Historique
Rapport
Connecting the dots: ONDCP's reluctant update on cocaine price and purity
Auteur(s) :
WALSH, J. M.
Année
2007
Page(s) :
8 p.
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Résumé :
Preliminary U.S. government data, quietly disclosed by ONDCP, indicate that cocaine's price per pure gram on US streets fell in 2006, while its purity increased. These latest estimates, continuing a 25-year trend, suggest that cocaine supplies are stable or even increasing. This is so despite $31 billion spent on drug interdiction and crop control efforts since 1997, including $5.4 billion spent in Colombia - the source of 90 percent of cocaine in the United States - since "Plan Colombia" began in 2000. [Extract of the publication]
Affiliation :
Washington Office on Latin America, WOLA, Washington, DC, USA