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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

TABLE

3

11

£46,000".

68,000