<b class="gmail_sendername">Ira Glazer</b> <<a href="mailto:ira@yanua.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ira@yanua.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><div><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329666124-103681,00.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329666124-103681,00.html
</a><br><br>['The study shows that 10,000 tonnes of marijuana worth $35.8bn<br>(£18.4bn) is grown each year; the street value would be even higher'.<br>Since marijuana is almost completely illegal (except in very limited
<br>circumstances), what other (monetary) value is there, apart from the<br>'street value'.]<br></blockquote></div><br>Official estimates of drug value are often ridiculously high. Perhaps<br>
it sells more papers, helps justify the expense of the War or Drugs,<br>
or the long sentences sometimes handed out.<br clear="all"><br>
10,000 tonnes for $35.8 billion? $3.58 million a tonne? Roughly<br>
$3.58 thousand a kilo? $3.58 a gram, roughly $100 an ounce.<br>
Sounds to me like they are already using a retail price here. I<br>
wonder if they are doing that for crops they compare to.<br><br>
-- <br>Sandy Harris<br>Quanzhou, Fujian, China