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Cannabis too pricy for most

According to the News of the World newspaper here in the UK, a single line of cocaine, or a single "hit" of heroin is now cheaper to buy than a pint of lager or beer in a British pub.
	The heroin will cost you £2.00 - thats almost a third cheaper than a pint of reassuringly expensive Stella lager, (lovingly referred to in South Wales as "Wife Beater"). The line of cocaine, served to you off a toilet seat in a public toilets, is more expensive at £2.50. Once upon a time in the United Kingdom, "white powder" drugs such as heroin and cocaine were the most expensive in the illicit drug-dealers inventory.
Cannabis, such as that seen in the picture (Afghani from Sensi Seeds) is one of the most expensive drugs on the street. Soap-bar is a lot cheaper, but also a lot more dangerous by way of unknown contaminants. Avoid it if you can and feel good about your own efforts to reduce personal harm from cannabis use.

Cannabis was always at the bottom of the menu, with drug buyers needing to spend only £10 on average, to score a deal. Heroin and cocaine, "cut" by dealers with adulterants to make up the weight more often than not, started at around £40-£50 per gram.

But in the shadow of the governments announcement of their intention to reclassify cannabis back to a class B drug, prices have rocketed, making cannabis the more expensive drug of choice.

Wholesale prices for green "herbal" cannabis are higher than they have been for a long time in the UK, with drug dealers in some area's paying their suppliers as much as £160 an ounce for low-to-medium quality flower buds, a deal which is then bulked up with leaf matter, which contains little or no psycho-active THC, (the component which gets the user stoned).

The other option for the thrifty buyer, which was totally ignored when the ACMD reviewed cannabis back in 2007/8, is soap-bar. A faux-hashish type of cannabis resin which is manufactured using tiny amounts of cannabis, bulked up with all sorts of distasteful ingredients such as diesel, shit (human as well as animal), henna, and ketamine, amongst others. A product that only twelve months ago, was on sale for £25-£30 per ounce.

Today drug dealers sell the soap-bar for £50 an ounce, and the herbal cannabis in £20 bags, which contain between 1.0 & 1.5 grams of the drug. Giving the drug dealer a comfortable 100%+ mark-up.

And while the Great British public concentrates on the high-profile cannabis arguments in the press, cocaine and heroin are getting a grip on our youngsters.

Back in 2004, David Blunkett alluded to the fact the police needed "freeing up" from some of their lesser drug responsibilities, to concentrate on the scourge of class A drugs, which are a real worry for parents of high school children these days.

4 years on in 2008, and we can see the police have failed dismally in their approach to class A drugs, with more heroin and cocaine available today than ever before, and at prices which fall squarely into the pocket money bracket.

Surely now its time for Jacqui Smith and Gordon Brown to admit they got this one wrong, and halt the reclassification of cannabis before it happens.

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