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Scotland: Availability of drugs
Alan Grant The Scotsman
Wednesday 20 Dec 2006 You report (18 December) that the current police crackdown on cannabis farms has left drug dealers unable to meet demand; but such superficial successes in the "war on drugs" actually conceal catastrophic failures. In 1968, in Edinburgh, an ounce of top-quality cannabis cost £8; the price today is around £240. In 1968, a gram of cocaine cost £80; now it is only £40 a gram. In other words, while one gram of cocaine used to cost the same as 10 ounces of cannabis, today the same gram costs less than a quarter-ounce. Cannabis is now almost unavailable, yet any teenager can go into a pub and be "sorted" with cocaine in less than an hour. Surely this isn't what's meant by "Smart, Successful Scotland"? ALAN GRANT Glenluiart, Moniaive Dumfriesshire
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