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Word: kilo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guthrie's lyrics celebrate a popular underground myth: that the U.S. is a tough drug scene compared with countries abroad, where the laws are loose and the hash is cheap. Though it is true that a "key" (kilo) of hashish may cost as little as $10 or $20 in Lebanon or Morocco, the price for many young American smugglers turns out to be almost unbearably high. All along the "trade routes" by which narcotics make their way back to Europe and the U.S., young Americans are filling up a veritable Baedeker of prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: The Jail Scene | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...ounce lots of 25% heroin?the rest is usually milk sugar or quinine?that cost the pusher $500 each. The pusher further cuts the diluted drug into glassine packets of 5% heroin, which he sells for $5 each?the so-called "nickel bag"?to the user. The original kilo has now grossed $225,000 for suppliers, traffickers, pushers and peddlers. The first user often splits the nickel bag into even smaller quantities that he resells for $2 or $3, making a profit that he himself can use to help support his habit. Because the addict often does not know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kids and Heroin: The Adolescent Epidemic | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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