The United Nations Is Overpaying for Cocaine
Today’s top news story emanates from the 320-page, UN World Drug Report 2009. It’s pretty dense, boring, run of the mill stuff, but one graphic caught my eye. The UN is overpaying for cocaine.
Who at the UN Office of Drugs and Crime is paying $120 a gram for yayo? Is that a government salary thing? TDR wouldn’t blow more than, like $45 a gram. Admittedly, it’s stepped-on Craigslist baby laxative, but you have to have some scruples.
Does San Francisco just pay wholesale prices? Please raise your hand if you paid $120 for a gram in 2008.
