Cocaine - Better and Cheaper

The ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy) recently admitted that despite the billions of dollars spent on Plan Columbia, it didn't quite work out the way they had planned....Mission Not Accomplished seems to be the theme for the War on Drugs.

Despite the billions being spent on drug interdiction and eradication as part of
"Plan Colombia," retail cocaine prices fell 11 percent between February 2005 and
October 2006, drug czar John Walters acknowledged in a letter to a leading
Republican lawmaker.

Average cocaine purity also increased, Walters said.
The Associated Press reported April 27 that Walters told Sen.
Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) that cocaine prices have fallen to $135 per gram,
about the same price as in the early 1990s and far short of the $600 per gram
the drug cost in 1981. ONDCP has repeatedly asserted that Plan Colombia has
made cocaine more expensive and less potent for U.S. consumers.
Grassley, the co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, said the data showed that while the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) "has gotten quite good at spinning the numbers ... cooking the books doesn't help our
efforts to curb cocaine and heroin production and consumption.
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