The cost of drugs

To clarify my earlier blog, I certainly did not mean the murdered prostitutes in Suffolk were “victims” of the government’s failed war on drugs. They were born free and chose drugs. My point is how much cheaper and easier it has become in the last ten years to take such a choice. The point of prohibition is to make heroin unaffordable, or very difficult to get hold of. Of course this price collapse started before Labour came to power – the earliest figure I have is £88/gram for July 1995 v £40 now. It was even higher in the 1980s – I have no idea how Zammo afforded it.
 
Perhaps they scrapped Grange Hill because the drug plot-lines would have been overwhelming. In 1994, just 1% of UK schoolchildren reported cocaine use. Now it’s 5%. And Britain – not the Netherlands – is Europe’s capital of ecstasy use – not surprising seeing as the price