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Drug prices - why no inflation in price over the years?

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Ismene2

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Anyone got any ideas why drugs seem immune to inflation or the rising cost of living? I've been paying the same price for LSD for the last 15 years - everything in the normal world goes up in price every 10 years but not drugs.

Your starter for ten: "Why is this?"
 
the prices are up..man can"t afford anything illegal unless he is very rich...legal tobaco is goin' up too,food is very expensive and is shit,coffea too...only good alcohol-especially spirits u can find still on promotion....but that's another world
 
The price of benzos has gone up loads, especially over the last year or 2.

They aren't cheap any more! Thankfully I'm not boshing huge amounts on the daily as I'd be bankrupting myself.

Weed still seems cheap though, although there has been inflation as I remember when an eighth of hash was £15 back in the early 90s, (IIRC) and I presume weed would have been around the same price. I'm now paying around 3 times as much for an eighth of weed, but it does go a long way, and lasts me a long time. It's strong and I don't use much, so it seems like good value to me.

Maybe you're just lucky that your drug of choice hasn't gone up much.

I was just watching something on youchube yesterday about inflation, and that was saying the start of the new tax year every April is traditionally when a round of price increases gets rolled out over many goods and services in the UK.

With the rate of the price increases of so many every day household items over the last ten - 20 years or so, I might have stockpiled the fuck out of everything that doesn't have a sell by date, if only I'd known what was going to happen. Wage increases have not kept up with the increase of the price of goods and services by a long shot, over the last 20 years or so. I've never earned a lot of money, but used to feel I could comfortably afford to live and have some luxuries, and manage to save / invest a bit too. Over recent months I've not had anything left over, after buying everything I need.
 
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Benzos...cheap...60 tablets diazepam -10 euros with a script....any doctor would write u a script ..on black market-three times up.painkillers-only for terminally ill.... scarcity..only tram..I guess all goes abroad somewhere.crystal-right the price is the same...weed-very up price.coke-guess the same price as to quality could be any..psychedelicks-non existant..ket-guess low price..idk.never tried..never searched..H-non existant from 15 years..illegal methadone-price up...very up
700ml whiskey....non bad for me..like William Peel or Ballantines-5 euro promo price...so ordinary man could drink,pop benzos or tram and try not to go insane completely
 
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weed is so cheap in my legal state of the US a few years after it has been legal. there's a lot of competition between dispensaries in my city.. some of it is okay quality.

i noticed some legal stuff non drugs like art supplies and musical instruments really hasn't gone up much at all, but everything else really has..

i think lsd prices probably stay the same cause the analogues are being sold cheap over the net. it wasn't really that way before, so that probably dropped the price of the real lsd25 too cause people would just use the analogues if real lsd were expensive.... i never really got why mdma was like 15 bucks a pill and lsd was a lot cheaper back in the day. i know they cost different amounts to make, i'd just figure the people would sell the lsd for more. shrooms were even like 30 bucks an 1/8th when i was in high school. no reason for that.
 
K has come down with a bang - used to be £25 a gram now £6.50.

Coke hasnt increased in price at all - if anything its dropped in price. I remember paying £100 a gram ten years ago.

Mdma is a lot cheaper too but maybe thats cos the synthesis they use now creates piss poor stuff.
 
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The only drug I really know of that this applies to is cocaine. And that's largely due to Albanians simply being very good at dealing drugs.
 
I haven't done enough LSD to really know. From what I understand you used to be able to get multiple for £10, though the quality was possibly a lot worse. Plus there are a lot o fNBOMEs and shit sold as LSD now.
 
GulpingBatteryLiquid said:
I haven't done enough LSD to really know. From what I understand you used to be able to get multiple for £10, though the quality was possibly a lot worse. Plus there are a lot o fNBOMEs and shit sold as LSD now.
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NbOMES are being sold less and less after they became scheduled. as time goes on i don't think people will be making them cause they aren't a research chemical. i bet you could still get some over the dark web or at a festival or something if someone had some saved up and wanted to make some cash, so i'm not saying you shouldn't still test, but as time goes on i think it will be more unlikely to see them.


you say "multiple for £10" you mean you get a bunch of tabs for ten whatever that form of money is.. i think before the early 90's a lot of people sold tabs for like a dollar, but they small doses. i was reading that the standard tabs were any where from like 30-300ugs. i think you'd get what you pay for, but seems like a lot of people have had experiences with acid where they were takiing low dosed tabs and then get stuff that is dosed properly and freak out.
 
Because drug dealers are more generous --- and if not MUCH MORE COMPETITIVE than corporations.

I have pondered this myself and do not have a great answer other than that. It is a true free market without price fixing?
 
notsmokeymcpot42088 said:
Because drug dealers are more generous --- and if not MUCH MORE COMPETITIVE than corporations.

I have pondered this myself and do not have a great answer other than that. It is a true free market without price fixing?
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A huge amount of cocaine is cut with dewormer that causes nose necrosis and heroin is cut with fent, nitazenes and "tranq". I'm not so sure that drug dealers are massively concerned with providing good deals.
 
I believe it's majorly due to quality. You pay for fire blow 20 years ago and it's the shit you pay the same today for the same amount and it's shit: So inflation exists but in the quality not the money
 
Internet access is my guess. More accessibility increases more market saturation which decreases scarcity and potential rising prices, so drugs not being just locally available. Some things don't really make sense still, like the beer I buy at the store is the same price as 10 years ago. People aren't buying/selling beer on the darknet
 
GulpingBatteryLiquid said:
A huge amount of cocaine is cut with dewormer that causes nose necrosis and heroin is cut with fent, nitazenes and "tranq". I'm not so sure that drug dealers are massively concerned with providing good deals.
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More a legal issue - Drugs would be regulated if they were not blackmarket. (That regulation in theory would rise the price a small amount(?) but be very worth it)

We are talking cartel level there - at this point basically just a illegal corporation that is going to cut $ whenever possible.

Still even they understand rather than upping the price of a pack of dope from 10 to 15 they gotta go replacement with fent as ppl just do not have extra money.

FTR I disagree and would much rather pay 15 but I do not represent the majority of the market
 
HillbillyChef said:
I believe it's majorly due to quality. You pay for fire blow 20 years ago and it's the shit you pay the same today for the same amount and it's shit: So inflation exists but in the quality not the money
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Rubbish! If you know the right telegram sellers you get 80-95% (I paid for EC lab tests on last 5 or 6 brick, most recent result 83% and that was 40/95 etc) flake for between £40-£50 a gram, £95-120 a 3.5g depending on brick prices at that time and acetone washed which raises it to 90-96% pure is currently 1g £70, 3.5g £175.

Obv not all sources are as gd as the best but data shows purity has risen and prices fallen last few yrs.

Buy online - C has never been this cheap for this pure!

I had some amphet recently too that EC lab tested 80%! - still wasnt as nice as the old damp putty base that stung yr mouth tho, s
altho this sulphate was no doubt the purest ive ever had
 
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