Estimated Illicit Prices of Opium Narcotics (1971)
Price (per Kilo)
Drug
Burme se Border Areas
Vietnam Bangkok Singapore
Hong Kong
Mexico Marseilles
Japan
U.S.A.
U.K.
Raw Opium
40-50
Prepared
Opium
Morphine
Heroin
*
Over 2,000
£3,000
80-100
200-300
#1
400-600
1,000-2,000"
#1
20
600
700
5,000-8,000" 12,000
+
3,000
8,900
J
140,000
45,000
450,000
Official wholesale prices in London
Morphine base 580 per Kilo
Heroin
770 % per Kilo
+
Illicit Laboratory price
#t Wholesale prices
Ø Retail
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£46,000".
68,000