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If there is one number that embodies the seemingly intractable challenge imposed by the illegal drug trade on the relationship between the United States and Mexico, it is $177.26. That is the retail price, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data, of one gram of pure cocaine from your typical local pusher. That is 74 percent cheaper than it was 30 years ago.

I remember it being $30-50 a gram 30 years ago. Is that what Obama paid?

[Ken H]

I remember it being $30-50 a gram 30 years ago.

The ONDCP says the price for 1 gm of pure cocaine in 1982 was $590 v the $177 today.

http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/fed-data/cocaine-prices.htm