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Drugs Are Getting Cheaper

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.13.2009 4:37 PM


The prices of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine have been declining for two decades, despite billions of drug war dollars spent to restrict supply. Then there's this headline today on CNN.com:

Heroin cheaper than six-pack of beer

Don't worry though. The drug war is totally working.

Via Best of the Web

Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason.

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