Taliban Talc: Heroin rockets in price – but only in the Guardian and BBC
by Anorak | 21st, September 2021
News in the Guardian is that heroin made in Afghanistan (it was packaged as talc) has rocketed in price:
Nearly three tonnes of heroin with a street value of $2.7bn (£2bn) from Afghanistan have been seized from a western Indian port in a major bust, officials said.
That’s 3000000g of smack at £667 a gram. In 2016, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said the average price of heroin in the US was $152 per gram – £111.
The story is from an agency, posted on the Guardian, apparently without the need to check the numbers. So off iy goes around the web:
But the BBC has it as its own report:
Such are the facts…
Posted: 21st, September 2021 | In: News Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
