Silk Road Vs. Street: A Comparison Of Drug Prices

STREET O SILK ROAD Vs A comparison of marijuana and cocaine prices from Silk Road, the now-defunct online drug marketplace, based on data scraped and parsed by ThePriceGeek. Average price on Silk Road: $12.10/g Marijuana Average price on the street: $9.50/g 27% Higher Than Street 5g 20g Average Quantity Purchased Country Average Price Per Gram 50g $25.39/g 12 gms Germany ($24.75/g 5 gms Poland $24.65/g 22 gms Australia $24.44/g 25 gms Sweden $24.41/g) 18 gms United Kingdom $22.41/g 32 gms Netherlands ($21.70/g 5 gms Czech Republic $18.70/g 7 gms Denmark ($17.03/g 52 gms United States France $16.41/g 11 gms ($14.90/g 19 gms Spain Italy $14.18/g 2 gms $13.00/g 70 gms Canada Ghana ($10.14/g 18 gms $8.31/g 10 gms South Africa 15 gms Philippines -($5.41/g Average price on the street: $174.20/g Cocaine Average price on Silk Road: $92.20/g 47% Lower Than Street 1g Average Quantity Purchased 5g Country Average Price Per Gram 10g $426/g ) 2.1 gms Australia United Kingdom $209/g |7.5 gms Bolivia $171/g .8 gms Germany $168/g | 7.3 gms 6.8 gms Belgium $158/g Netherlands $147/g 10.45 gms 7.95 gms Canada $144/g Italy $143/g |2.2 gms United States $129/g | 2.3 gms Peru ($83/g 10.14 gms Note: All Silk Road prices were converted from Bitcoin to USD, based on the Oct. 2 conversion rate of $140 USD to 1 BTC. By Lisa Mahapatra INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES Sources: Data scraped and parsed by Dean Magee of ThePriceGeek http://www.thepricegeek.com/blog/2013/08/22/market-price-of-drugs-on-silk-road/