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During 1973 the average wholesale prices of various
drugs were as follows
Opium
1st Half
21 Half
Raw (per kilo)
$1,320
$1,210
Prepared (per kilo)
$2,510
$2,400
Morphine
Fer Kilo
$5,500
09,203
Heroin
1st grade (per gm.)
2nd grade (per gm.)
$28.2
$30.1
37.1
$10.9
There was an increase in the price of morphine and heroin during the second half of the year when there was a period of acute shortage. During this period the price for morphine rose to over $17,000 per kilo, for 1st grade heroin to 333.8 per gm. and $21 per gm. for 2nd grade heroin. The retail price of 2nd grade heroin during the same period. was in the region of $31 per gm.
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49.
49. bis.
was
(See para. 42).
Not applicable.
The total amount of opium seized in illicit traffic
Rew Opium
2096.539 ks.
Trepared Opium
226.273 kgs.
Opium dross
129.571 kgs.
Solution of opium
394.841 litres
) 280.637 kgs.
b
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
f
1998.467 kgs. of raw opium
219.139 kgs. of a salt of morphine.
(a) - (j) No change.
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50.
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