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...Corsican and Italian middlemen in Montevideo, Buenos Aires-or Auguste Ricord's Asunción. The economics of the trade are such that the professional trafficker is usually assured of great profit-and power. Along the various steps from Turkish farm, where enough opium to produce a "key" (kilo) of heroin can be bought for $22, to New York market, the value of a key rises dramatically...
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...
...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...
...kept zipping by me while I missed every wave. In Yosemite National Park, my rented pickup camper was surrounded by bears as soon as I arrived, which is why I didn't get more interviews. The next morning I picked up two hippies with a dog named Kilo...
...Francisco, Kilo rode in the camper section and ate most of my clothes. There, I walked into the middle of a small riot. Then I had my car towed away for a slightly expired parking meter, and got ticketed for failing to see a sign hidden behind a truck. Back in Los Angeles, a confirmed Californian, I made arrangements for my burial at Forest Lawn...