Cocaine at 2 pounds a line

A line of cocaine can now cost less than a high street coffee.
The shock figure came in a parliamentary report which attacked 'woefully inadequate' efforts to stop imports of the Class A drug.
MPs said a single line of cocaine could cost as little as 2Ј because soaring demand had brought down prices, informs dailymail.co.uk.
The drug cost Ј80 a gram ten years ago but now costs barely 40Ј a gram.
The Commons home affairs select committee said celebrities and successful businessmen had helped popularise it.
Their report said: 'The seeming propensity of celebrity users to "get away with" using cocaine does contribute to a general trend of glamorising use, as does the social acceptability and normalisation generated by "successful" people who appear to function normally, often holding down high-flying careers, whilst using cocaine.
'These are doubly dangerous as they contribute to the misguided reputation of cocaine as a relatively safe and non-addictive drug.'
Supermodels Kate Moss and Jodie Kidd have been exposed as cocaine users, while classical singer Katherine Jenkins and singer Amy Winehouse have openly confessed to taking it.

05.03.10