Pricey Drugs
So after years of wondering about the bizarre numbers that the press come up with every time there is a 'huge' haul of ecstacy taken by the cops, I finally did the maths.
Today's story in the Sydney Morning Herald claims a haul of $12 million dollar's worth, or 142000 pills. What I want to know is, who the hell is spending $85 per pill when they are commonly available for between $25-40?
I think that for $85 per pill I would want pure MDMA sprinkled with gold flakes, each accesorised with an ivory-handled crushing and snorting kit, plus keys for the night to a Sydney Harbour waterfront penthouse. Good grief. Not even the drug-supply derived South Coast experienced inflation of that level.
I wonder if a carton of milk in journalistic mathematics world commonly inflates from $2 to $8, or what other magical number games are going on there...
2 Comments:
At 6:27 AM,
Christy said…
A few weeks back my little sister called, all proud of herself, because after forking over $100 she possessed ecstasy for her and her boyfriend. Two pills. At first I thought she meant two pills each, but after realizing she spent $50 on each pill I wanted to slap her.
At 9:29 AM,
Ali H said…
Hmm. Perhaps journalists exist in that elite group of the utterly naive who are targeted by dealers to pay extreme and stupid amounts of money for their drugs. Perhaps this is journalistic revenge for all those bad deals years ago... all in the name of research, I'm sure.
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