According to the United Nations, illegal drugs create enormous
profits -- in 2001, a kilogram of heroin in Pakistan sold for an average
of $610. In the US in 2001, heroin cost an average of $25,000 per
kilogram, and at street-level, an average of $55 per gram.
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Global Illicit
Drug Trends 2003 (New York, NY: UNODC, 2003), p. 243.
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