[Kristen]

Everyone is so caught up with the crisis of the free market, I wonder how the black market is holding up and how they each effect each other. For example if deflation is going on, would prices go down on the black market for drugs and other goods? It would be an interesting indicator of the economy because the black market does have an effect in it.

[Revi]

I just read Dmitri Orlov's book Reinventing Collapse, and he said that as the Soviet Union collapsed there was more and more of a black market in everything. I imagine that it will happen here as well, if the regular economy collapses.

[mattduke]

Wholesale Cocaine Prices

NARCOTIC NEWS
Cocaine Prices in the United States of America

ALABAMA
Birmingham $18,500 - $21,500
Mobile $20,000 - $24,000
Montgomery $19,500 - $22,000

ALASKA
Anchorage $19,000 - $38,000

ARIZONA
Phoenix $15,000 - $16,500
Tucson $14,000 - $17,000

ARKANSAS
Fayetteville $19,000 - $20,000
Little Rock $18,000 - $20,000

CALIFORNIA
Fresno $16,500 - $20,500
Los Angeles $14,000 - $17,000
San Diego $11,500 - $20,000
San Francisco $16,000 - $21,000

COLORADO
Colorado Springs $17,000 - $18,000
Denver $14,000 - $18,500

CONNECTICUT
Bridgeport $20,000 - $30,000
Hartford $26,000 - $28,000
New Haven $20,000 - $29,000

DELAWARE
Wilmington $25,000 - $28,000

FLORIDA
Jacksonville $16,500 - $20,000
Miami $18,000 - $25,500
Orlando $18,000 - $25,000

GEORGIA
Atlanta $18,000 - $24,000
Columbus $21,000 - $25,500
Savannah $21,500 - $24,500

HAWAII
Honolulu $26,000 - 50,000

IDAHO
Boise $17,000 - $20,000

ILLINOIS
Chicago $18,000 - $22,000
Springfield $22,000 - $27,000

INDIANA
Indianapolis $20,000 - $22,500
Merrilville $19,000 - $24,500

IOWA
Cedar Rapids $21,000 - $28,000
Des Moines $21,000 - $26,000

KANSAS
Wichita $16,000 - $22,000

KENTUCKY
Lexington $22,000 - $30,000
London $20,500 - $24,000
Louisville $22,000 - $28,000

Louisiana
Baton Rouge $18,000 - $21,000
New Orleans $18,000 - $24,500
Shreveport $19,000 - $24,500

MAINE
Bangor $24,000 - $35,500
Lewiston $23,000 - $29,000
Portland $22,500 - $34,000

MARYLAND
Baltimore $20,500 - $32,000

MASSACHUSETTS
Boston $22,000 - $32,000
Springfield $24,000 - $31,000
Worcester $24,000 - $29,500

MICHIGAN
Detroit $17,000 - $26,500
Grand Rapids $20,500 - $25,500
Saginaw $27,000 - $31,500

MINNESOTA
Minneapolis $18,000 - $28,000

MISSISSIPPI
Gulfport $18,000 - $24,000
Jackson $17,000 - $25,000
Oxford $20,000 - $23,000

MISSOURI
Kansas City $18,000 - $22,500
St. Louis $19,500 - $23,000

MONTANA
Billings $20,500 - $24,000
Great Falls $25,000 - $28,000

NEBRASKA
Grand Island $18,000 - $20,000
Omaha $18,000 - $24,000

NEVADA
Las Vegas $13,500 - $20,000
Reno $16,000 - $21,000

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Concord $22,500 - $29,500
Manchester $23,000 - $30,000

NEW JERSEY
Atlantic City $21,000 - $32,000
Camden $21,000 - $31,000
Newark $20,000 - $30,000

NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque $16,000 - $18,500
Las Cruces $12,500 - $17,000

NEW YORK
Albany $20,000 - $32,000
Buffalo $20,000 - $31,500
New York City $16,000 - $26,500

NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte $18,000 - $22,000
Raleigh $18,000 - $24,000
Wilmington $18,000 - $24,000

NORTH DAKOTA
Fargo $24,500 - $28,000

OHIO
Cincinnati $18,000 - $25,000
Cleveland $22,000 - $26,500
Columbus $22,000 - $25,500
Dayton $18,500 - $25,500
Toledo $23,500 - $27,500
Youngstown $25,000 - $28,000

OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City $20,000 - $24,000
Tulsa $18,000 - $23,500

OREGON
Portland $16,000 - $20,000

PENNSYLVANIA
Allentown $24,000 - $26,000
Philadelphia $23,500 - $31,000
Pittsburgh $25,000 - $30,500

PUERTO RICO
San Juan $13,000 - $17,500

RHODE ISLAND
Providence $22,000 - $29,000

SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston $22,000 - $24,000
Columbia $21,500 - $23,000
Greenville $18,000 - $26,500

SOUTH DAKOTA
Rapid City $22,000 - $27,500
Sioux Falls $18,000 - $23,000

TENNESSEE
Knoxville $21,000 - $25,000
Memphis $18,000 - $22,000
Nashville $21,500 - $26,000

TEXAS
Dallas $15,000 - $22,000
El Paso $13,000 - $15,000
Houston $14,000 - $18,000
Laredo $12,500 - $15,000
San Antonio $13,000 - $18,000

UTAH
Salt Lake City $16,000 - $21,000

VERMONT
Burlington $30,000 - $35,000

VIRGINIA
Fairfax $25,000 - $30,000
Norfolk $22,000 - $30,000
Richmond $21,000 - $28,000
Roanoke $18,500 - $25,000
Virginia Beach $24,500 - $32,000

WASHINGTON
Seattle $17,000 - $23,000
Spokane $18,000 - $24,000
Yakima $18,000 - $22,500

WASHINGTON D.C.
District of Columbia $27,000 - $29,000

WEST VIRGINIA
Charleston $22,000 - $28,500

WISCONSIN
Green Bay $20,500 - $25,000
Madison $22,000 - $27,000
Milwaukee $20,000 - $23,500

WYOMING
Cheyenne $20,000 - $24,000

[eastbay]

That's 'per kilo' on the coke prices.


More and more I've noticed prescription drugs are sold along with dope. Penicillin can now be bought on the street, for example, but everything from oxycotin to antibiotics are increasingly available. Not too many years ago that just didn't happen.

The black market will rapidly fill the void caused by a crashing economy. No job? No medical insurance? Need your medicine and can't get a prescription? No problem!

[Kristen]

Well that's why during the looting you make a stop to the pharmacy first right. Being in college It seems more and more kids are using prescription drugs. I know that if I have people over that I don't know, I hide my ambien away. I've had a few bottles disappear before.

So if the real economy starts to plummet the black market will benefit? I wonder if it is still vulnerable to price fluctuations though

[mattduke]

Coke prices jumped recently. The DEA goons were quick to claim responsibility for the price increases. But really it was another 3-letter branch, the FED, that was inflating the currency. Plus there was that CIA plane that went down in Mexico.

[mattduke]

Notice how the politicians in DC really bid up the prices there.

[eastbay]

Speaking of cocaine... this seizure will certainly cause prices to increase almost immediately.

Expect a corresponding increase in thefts and burglaries enabling the users to fund their costlier habit.

[AlexdeLarge]

I talked to a friend who works on Wall Street. I asked him how the traders were coping with all the financial turmoil.

He said...........Blow and Hookers! LOL