• 12 May 2009 at 11:20 AM

US v. UK: Blow v. Dough

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Have you perhaps been offered employment both at home and across the pond? Basically the decision comes down to this. Which is more important to you– working without the tentacles of TARP, or quality cocaine?

Prices per kilo have risen from £39,000 in 2008 to over £45,000 (50,000 euros), but street prices have remained stable.
However, new figures obtained by the BBC suggest almost a third of police seizures are now less than 9% pure, the lowest recorded purity level.
The data, collected by the Forensic Science Service, reveals how drug gangs are using increasing amounts of chemicals – so-called cutting agents – to dilute cocaine powder sold on the streets of Britain.
They include the cancer-causing drug phenacetin, cockroach insecticide and pet worming powder.

World Cocaine Market In Retreat [BBC]

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    Comments (21)

    1. 1
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM

      What has this got to do with finance and banking?
      Dead Guy From Delaware

    2. 2
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:27 AM

      Cockroach insecticide + Pet worming powder = Bolivian Marching Powder.

    3. 3
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:27 AM

      I prefer Keystone Light and a tub of Kodiak anyway
      The Guy From Delaware

    4. 4
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM

      Is it organic cockroach insecticide at least?

    5. 5
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM

      You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!
      –T.M.

    6. 6
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:34 AM

      You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!
      –T.M.

    7. 7
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:38 AM

      When did they start cutting the roach powder w/coke?

    8. 8
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM

      I can’t feel my face. I mean, it’s there, I just can’t feel it.

    9. 9
      Posted by Anal_yst | May 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM

      wtf happened to using straight vitamins and other mostly-harmless crap, jesus

    10. 10
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM

      £45,000? That’d be about 68 bucks a gram, wholesale, about 70% higher than we can get retail over here. No wonder the Limeys are cutting it with rat poison and shit.
      My point?
      USA! USA!

    11. 11
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM

      @8 I wouldn’t call it “cutting”…more like just sprinkling some coke on top of the roach powder

    12. 12
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM

      @11- no fucking shit

    13. 13
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:54 AM

      @10
      sometimes you sound like you’re older than fucking tgfd

    14. 14
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM

      That’s why I only buy from that fellow with the Escalade

    15. 15
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM

      If you’re buying and not tasting and negotiating your price, you deserve to get 100% rat poison. You shouldn’t even be entitled to the 9%. Only fitting that your parents money is being spent on rat poison, since they’ve already wasted so much of it on you.

    16. 16
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM

      @15
      You should be more responsible. In the age of global warming, you need to be aware of the consequences of your actions. Have you any idea of the size of the carbon footprint left behind by an Escalade? For us so concerned, there a dealer in Manhattan who drives a pimped-up Prius. Can give you his number if you’d like.

    17. 17
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 12:45 PM

      @10 – The MSM saying that its cut with ‘vitamins and other mostly-harmless crap’ is not going to scare you away is it, in fact it could even be interpreted by some as promoting drugs!
      Dont you think in reality the cheapest and most readily available white powder like substance would be used ?

    18. 18
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 1:19 PM

      We got it for cheap down here.
      -TGFH

    19. 19
      Posted by guest | May 12, 2009 at 1:27 PM

      As long as there are hookers and I can get cheesed, I am OK.

    20. 20
      Posted by EvilBuzzard | May 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM

      “Hi, I’m Tony Mantana. Why did this nose candy kill all the lice in my hair?”

    21. 21
      Posted by Anal_yst | May 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM

      @18
      I take the fif…

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