Economic Woes Impacting Cocaine Now!

Things just keep getting worse for Lindsay Lohan, don’t they?

A new report out of Britain indicates that cocaine purity is going way down and prices for the good stuff are going way up:

Prices per kilo have risen from £39,000 in 2008 to over £45,000 (50,000 euros), but street prices have remained stable. However, new figures obtained by the BBC suggest almost a third of police seizures are now less than 9% pure, the lowest recorded purity level.

The data, collected by the Forensic Science Service, reveals how drug gangs are using increasing amounts of chemicals – so-called cutting agents – to dilute cocaine powder sold on the streets of Britain. They include the cancer-causing drug phenacetin, cockroach insecticide and pet worming powder.

Soca head of enforcement Trevor Pearce told the BBC: “There is a discernible effect that we are now seeing in relation to the availability of cocaine both in Europe and also across the UK.

“We are now seeing high-quality cocaine at about £45,000 (50,000 euros) per kilo wholesale in the UK. That’s significantly higher than it has been and has to be indicative of the pressure which the importers are under.”

The study blames both the flailing economy and an increasingly organized effort across South America, the Caribbean, across the Atlantic and with European partners to limit the drug trade.

Seriously, though, who cares why this is happening? Who wants to stick pet worming powder up their nose? EW!!! Don’t do drugs, kids!!!