Price fall of illegal drugs throughout Mekong

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Price fall of illegal drugs throughout Mekong

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By Amy Sawitta Lefevre
October 2, 2018

Production and trafficking of illicit drugs have reached unprecedented levels in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region and East Asia,

"In Thailand, for instance, the price of a methamphetamine tablet ranged between $1.5 and $4.5 in 2017, down from a range of $4 to $7 in 2014, UN data this year showed."

"In the wealthy nearby city-state of Singapore, prices fell to below $6 in 2017, from $20 in 2014."

“The surge in ‘yaba’ tablet supply has pushed street prices down across the region, "

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia ... SKCN1MC0DI
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Re: Price fall of illegal drugs throughout Mekong

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Just finished reading;

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Although price might be falling, production isn't
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...t’s the world’s largest methamphetamine empire, a billion-dollar complex churning out more speed pills each year than McDonald’s serves Big Macs worldwide
Talks about Ya Ba production in Myanmar which they claim produce's over 16,000,000,000 pills /year

A good read
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Re: Price fall of illegal drugs throughout Mekong

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phuketrichard wrote: Fri Oct 05, 2018 2:51 pm Just finished reading;

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Although price might be falling, production isn't
I
...t’s the world’s largest methamphetamine empire, a billion-dollar complex churning out more speed pills each year than McDonald’s serves Big Macs worldwide
Talks about Ya Ba production in Myanmar which they claim produce's over 16,000,000,000 pills /year

A good read
Drugs are bad mmkkkaayyy.....
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Re: Price fall of illegal drugs throughout Mekong

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That's quite a price drop. Like 45 to 130 a pill?
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