The cost of coke

in 2007 a ball of pure clean in houston was 100-120. Some "norm" was 70-100. oz was 600-650. oz's are usually fairly uncut I think... Although studies are showing street samples being cut with levamisole in numbers up to 80+%, so it is likely added at high levels of distribution (or even source levels) which is why I would never mess with the stuff.


I don't think any samples have showed up more than 20-25% levamisole yet, so if we increase the prices 20% I don't think we get $120 a gram.
Nowdadays in TX, a $20 bag is .5-.6 depending on quality usually. So 40 a gram +20% would be 48-50 a gram... And that's generous because the "norm" is a 1.6 $50

So if we go on math and statistics, TX cocaine prices around $40-50 for pure gram. Vs $100 back in 1985 (I was told it was the disco shit :p) (adjusted to inflation the prices would be like $300 30 years ago.) Now the article says they are $120, but I think that's high for pure. I think the national average for a pure gram shouldn't be more than 60 IMO. Even $80 in some middle of nowhere farmtown, I would expect a gram of the purest finest blow ever known to mankind... But that's still considerably less than $120...
 
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SangerRainsford said:
a $20 bag @ 0.167g(PURE) is fair IMO, but wtf do i know? anything i've said is wrt "market" prices, but ppl pay anywhere from like ~$25 to ~$300 a gram, once prices are corrected to $/pure-gram, depending where/who/etc the situation entails.

whatever, i'm far more interested in the national disparities than in hearing what every bl'er has paid for their shit :|
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$50 is a big disparity from $120..

Does anybody pay $180-200 a gram for pure, in the US? That should give us an idea to the accuracy of the report.
 
VERY few ppl in the us get pure in the 1st place, so ppl are just pulling purity%'s outta their asses.
/and no, most ounces are not pure either. things get cut the more "levels" in the chain they progress through, so oz's are going to be less cut- on average -than grams, but still cut way more often than not.
 
Pure on the streets is typically 15-20% levamisole since it's added high in the distribution chain. On top of whatever else is added at lower levels. However I've seen it tested with eztest white... It got a dark red color reaction. I don't think some levamisole-only cut is hard to get at dealer level since when you add more cuts to levamicoke it makes it incredibly harsh... Any dealer who values a clients business will sell them uncut.
 
SangerRainsford said:
a $20 bag @ 0.167g(PURE) is fair IMO, but wtf do i know? anything i've said is wrt "market" prices, but ppl pay anywhere from like ~$25 to ~$300 a gram, once prices are corrected to $/pure-gram, depending where/who/etc the situation entails.

whatever, i'm far more interested in the national disparities than in hearing what every bl'er has paid for their shit :|
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You know what's crazy. Houston's powder cocaine is cheaper AND more pure than cocaine I came accross in Brownsville. Isn't that backwards from expected? Especially considering the price of marijuana along the border was 1/3 the price of it in Houston (obviously because of the Border patrol interior checkpoints). Isn't that strange the cocaine is cheaper in Houston though? 8o
 
just make it cheaper, better, and more available gawrsh then everyone would stop bitching
 
severely etarded said:
Pure on the streets is typically 15-20% levamisole since it's added high in the distribution chain. On top of whatever else is added at lower levels. However I've seen it tested with eztest white... It got a dark red color reaction. I don't think some levamisole-only cut is hard to get at dealer level since when you add more cuts to levamicoke it makes it incredibly harsh... Any dealer who values a clients business will sell them uncut.
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Everything I've read indicates that the levamisole is added at the lowest levels.

Check out the other levamisole flesh eating thread and the links I posted in it. :)
 
phrozen said:
Everything I've read indicates that the levamisole is added at the lowest levels.

Check out the other levamisole flesh eating thread and the links I posted in it. :)
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:?

South American producers have independently decided to start cutting their "pure" product.
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Once cocaine crosses into the U.S. over the Mexico border, dealers cut it with agents other than levamisole: flour, baby powder, Epsom salts, laxatives, lidocaine, chalk.
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It's cut with levamisole at the distribution level typically, then the lidocaine etc is added by the dealers... no :?
 
Yeah, that's saying what I said. It's getting cut at the lowest level by the South Americans, which is contrary to what one would intuitively expect.

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Edit: Never mind. We're interpreting high and low level differently. :D

Carry on... lol
 
psychomimetic said:
Jesus Christ coke's expensive in Europe. It's fallen to those prices? I don't even see how anyone except the super wealthy can afford it. Do folks smoke crack in Europe like we do in the US?
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Uh... I can get coke right off a brick and it doesn't cost $120 a gram. I can get a ball of quality stuff for that. And I'm not even into cocaine at all. I hate the stuff and I'm not even in that circle, but I can just make a phone call and someone can arrange it for me.

$120 a gram??? That is unbelievably inflated.

I can get an ounce anywhere from $800 to $1600 depending on whether I want to go right outside of a metropolitan area and deal with shady people in public places or take a few hour drive to the country where wholesalers have their stash houses.

Where do they get these numbers from?
 
psychomimetic said:
Wow I totally missed that :!

Anyway, if it's adjusted to purity that might make sense, but 120 a gram is unheard of here, even for amazing coke.
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That's the problem with coke. Stuff that people refer to as "amazing coke" is almost definitely less than 50% pure unless you are very high up the supply chain (as in before it gets to the US or Europe). It's not uncommon for coke to be 10% pure. $120/ gram is a normal price for cocaine, but not a little coke cut with god knows what. It's just that pure cocaine basically doesn't exist on the street.
 
killermunchies said:
That's the problem with coke. Stuff that people refer to as "amazing coke" is almost definitely less than 50% pure unless you are very high up the supply chain (as in before it gets to the US or Europe). It's not uncommon for coke to be 10% pure. $120/ gram is a normal price for cocaine, but not a little coke cut with god knows what. It's just that pure cocaine basically doesn't exist on the street.
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You can actually find out. I have found 5-star stuff on the streets before. I have known a dealer or two who did not cut their product, simply paid wholesale and sold it retail. I'm sure it was 15% levamisole probably at least...
 
HighonLife said:
really?

cuz it seems like everyone but you agrees that 120/gram is BS
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a - no, not everyone but me, and
b - this has been clearly explained by myself and (kaywholed iirc) in this thread. everyone else is simply saying "nah yo i don' pay dat!" Kinda like you are (ya ya, you get balls maaad cheap dude - how much again? ;PPP)
 
In Australia the street price can vary from 250-450 per gram.

It is almost always cut down to 7%-25% purity.

250,000-450,000 a key in cut street price is astronomical beyond all belief.
 
Can't find it here last time was 3 years ago it was 120 a ball and real nice stuff. I wish I could get it again.
 
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