100 grams of morphine; maybe@ Also Tapered know how much after acetic anhydryde( mis) and other stuff and factors
Well, actually that's a REALLY good question.
The OFFICIAL price for morphine sulfate paid on the open market is anywhere from $10000 to $40000 per Kg.
Which is, frankly, why their IS a black market for heroin and indeed synthetics. That range is simply ridiculous and yet it is the published figures derived from the fact that all legal sales of morphine have a huge paper-trail.
When I tell you that the OFFICIAL price for codeine phosphate is anywhere from $111 to $1023 per Kg, that might sound odd.
The thing to know is that almost ALL of the codeine phosphate on the market is made from morphine.
SOMEBODY is causing the price of morphine to be hugely inflated. especially when you consider that 300 tonnes of it are being legally traded every year.
Acetic anhydride is kind of interesting. It's listed by the UNODC as a schedule I precursor but it finds large scale industrial use in the range of millions of tonnes per annum. of course, their are ways around this. In SE Asia heroin producers had switched to using ethylidene diacetate but in fact their are dozens of commercial intermediates that COULD substitute for AA but AA is the cheapest and control over it's distribution has been an utter failure.
I think when you realize that methadone costs $364 to $1915/Kg and 'only' 59 tonnes of it were legally traded in 2022, the cost of a material and the price charged sometimes DO match up. When REAL competition is in action. Tramadol is just $34-$81/Kg because, I presume, it's not even listed in the UNODC. No more of a paper-trail than an antibiotic.
BTW the eradication of opium production in Afghanistan MIGHT not be as consistent as most of the media would have us believe. There are remote areas of Afghanistan where their honestly is NO alternative. The nation is so lacking in infrastructure that farmers have no other way of making money. No other crop has a shelf-life of years. When you consider the ridiculous prices that, for a better term, the 'syndicate of nations' that officially produce morphine are charging, it would seem to make sense to allow production. Officially it's because some of that legally grown opium would end up being used to make heroin, but right now it's that H production that's funding a civil war in Myanmar. So it is my belief that it's a political issue disguised as a practical one.