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 veggie
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 Marijuana Prices in Chile Skyrocket 
#11986156 - 02/08/10 03:57 AM (5 months, 16 days ago) |
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Marijuana Prices in Chile Skyrocket Three-fold
February 8, 2010 - santiagotimes.cl
Prices escalate from US$923 per kilo to US$2,769 per kilo due to shortage
Policia de Investigaciones (PDI) crackdowns on marijuana cultivation and trafficking in Chile have resulted in a shortage of the drug, sending prices sky-rocketing, government sources reported last week.
In the last three years the amount of cannabis seized by the PDI has risen 107 percent.
Figures show the price of one kilogram of marijuana in Santiago is currently US$1,661, while in La Calera the same amount costs US$2,400 and US$2,954 in San Antonio. In Talca, one kilo costs US$1,846, the same as further south in Puerto Montt. In Chillan, a kilogram is priced at US$1,292 and in Punta Arenas, US$2,769.
During 2009, police seized 11.5 tons of cannabis and 74, 434 crop plants – a 60 percent increase over the previous year.
Police are searching border crossings and inspecting rural areas to detect cannabis crops. Juan Francisco Hernande, PDI’s anti-narcotics division head, said most of the processed marijuana sold in Chile comes from foreign shores, most often Paraguay, where it is then hidden in trucks and transported to Argentina, before a final leg to Chile across the Andes.
Hernandez said tightened security at border crossings has lead traffickers to seek out alternate routes into Chile. He added that greater use of helicopters is also helping police locate marijuana crops. “We have focused our work between Region IV and Region VIII, [which] we found are the major growing areas,” Hernandez said.
Around 180 people were arrested for growing marijuana in 2009, compared to 122 arrested in 2008. Already this year (2010) police have seized 33,000 plants.
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Re: Marijuana Prices in Chile Skyrocket [Re: veggie]
#11986409 - 02/08/10 07:31 AM (5 months, 16 days ago) |
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"Figures show the price of one kilogram of marijuana in Santiago is currently US$1,661, while in La Calera the same amount costs US$2,400 and US$2,954 in San Antonio"
Must be talking about san antonio chile or some shit cause O DooR round her is 350-400 lb depending on how good you speak spanish/// in quantity its more like 250 a bow
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Rylmonkey
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Re: Marijuana Prices in Chile Skyrocket [Re: SEE]
#11986431 - 02/08/10 07:42 AM (5 months, 16 days ago) |
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LOL this article pops up right when my mom is there on vacation, and they are talking about san antonio chile.
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j0nnyb0y05
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Re: Marijuana Prices in Chile Skyrocket [Re: SEE]
#11987430 - 02/08/10 12:04 PM (5 months, 15 days ago) |
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Quote:
SEE said:
"Figures show the price of one kilogram of marijuana in Santiago is currently US$1,661, while in La Calera the same amount costs US$2,400 and US$2,954 in San Antonio"
Must be talking about san antonio chile or some shit cause O DooR round her is 350-400 lb depending on how good you speak spanish/// in quantity its more like 250 a bow
sounds like crap weed
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Re: Marijuana Prices in Chile Skyrocket [Re: j0nnyb0y05]
#11987941 - 02/08/10 01:26 PM (5 months, 15 days ago) |
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What effect will tripling the price of marijuana have?
Reducing marijuana supply is contradictory to prohibitionist aims:
1) Government eradicates marijuana crops.
2) Marijuana prices go up as supply goes down.
3) Fewer people can afford and use marijuana.
4) More people start using meth/other available drugs as an alternative.
This has been shown in the US: reducing marijuana supply in a region has a direct effect of increasing meth use. Unless the prices of ALL drugs go up, people will just switch to a cheaper alternative to get high (or perhaps find a way to get their drugs..). As marijuana is one of the safest recreational/therapeutic drugs known to man, the alternative almost always results in more harm.
I believe this is what is known as "blowback"; the unintended consequences of doing something which appears to serve your interests in the small picture, but actually fucks up the big picture...
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Re: Marijuana Prices in Chile Skyrocket [Re: Green_T]
#11988580 - 02/08/10 03:07 PM (5 months, 15 days ago) |
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that's expensive, I hope they are not talking about schwag.
schwag doesn't sell in kilos here but 2.2 pounds would probably cost me about $750...
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