SOOTH CHINA MORNING POST
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drugs prices increase
The prices of drugs, like those of food, have risen steeply during the last year, it was learned yesterday.
The price increases involve all types of drugs, including the two most popular and common ones, heroin and opium.
The main reason for the price increases is the general shortage of illicit drugs in the Southeast Asia region. The American Federal Narcotics Bureau has played an important role in putting on the pressure on illicit drug suppliers so that a reduced quantity of drugs is now on the illicit market.
Added to this in the case of Hongkong, the Colony's own Narcotics Bureau and the Preventive Service has damaged the business of the divans.
Large hauls of drugs were seized by the two departments recently, and a stepped-up blitz on the divans has kept the drug runners on the run, sources said.
Sources say that prices have gone up from $2 to $4 or even $5 for small packets of heroin. Sources say that drug pedlars are giving police pressure' as the reason for the extra cost to their
'consumers".
"Lookout men have been doubled and protection money has had to be increased. Generally, operational costs have gone up,” said the source.
Meanwhile, narcotics officers are searching for the owner of a car in which 23 lbs of heroin worth $190,000 was seized.
The discovery was made by two patrolling detectives of Kowloon City Police Station shortly before 4 pm on Sunday in Hunghom.
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At that time the policemen saw а middle-aged repairing the car.`They were about to lend a helping hand when the man ran away,
The policemen discovered the drugs when they searched the car later.
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