Clearly, Canadian healthcare has advantages for some: half-price pot and coke.
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Low pot prices in Canada result not from their healthcare system but from lack of enforcement against grow operations in the western provinces. It is almost as easy for a tourist to find good herb to smoke in Vancouver as in Amsterdam. A lot of marijuana is being smuggled into the US from Canada, initially high grade bud but now also bulk commercial schwag. Average retail prices mean no more than if you add the price of a bottle of Ripple and a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild and divide by two.
As for cocaine, the one gram I bought in recent years was bought in 2005 and cost only $50. It was potent enough that it took very little to do what I wanted it to and the effects felt clean, suggesting it was not cheapened with meth or caffeine. I guess I had a better connection than the UN researchers did.
When I change the units from decaleters per hectare to furlongs per fortnight (or whatever) I see that the price of pot is up. Yet the price of coke ($100/g) is the same as when I was a teenager in the mid-70s. What explains the (inflation-adjusted) falling price of one and the increase in the other?
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Low pot prices in Canada result not from their healthcare system but from lack of enforcement against grow operations in the western provinces. It is almost as easy for a tourist to find good herb to smoke in Vancouver as in Amsterdam. A lot of marijuana is being smuggled into the US from Canada, initially high grade bud but now also bulk commercial schwag. Average retail prices mean no more than if you add the price of a bottle of Ripple and a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild and divide by two.
As for cocaine, the one gram I bought in recent years was bought in 2005 and cost only $50. It was potent enough that it took very little to do what I wanted it to and the effects felt clean, suggesting it was not cheapened with meth or caffeine. I guess I had a better connection than the UN researchers did.
When I change the units from decaleters per hectare to furlongs per fortnight (or whatever) I see that the price of pot is up. Yet the price of coke ($100/g) is the same as when I was a teenager in the mid-70s. What explains the (inflation-adjusted) falling price of one and the increase in the other?
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