Kosovo, Cheapest Narcotics in Region

| 19 September 2008 | By Krenar Gashi in Pristina and the BIRN Regional Team

Pristina _ Kosovo has the lowest street-market prices for narcotics among all Balkan countries and drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin are affordable even for teenagers, Balkan Insight can reveal.

Narcotic prices in the newborn country are the lowest in the region, when compared with prices in neighbouring countries.

Police sources show that a gramme of heroin in Kosovo can be found for as little as €10. In Bosnia and Herzegovina the same quantity of the same drug is priced at between €15 to €25, in Macedonia between €25 and €40, while in Albania and Serbia from €25 upwards.

Cocaine is also cheap in Kosovo where prices for a gramme vary between €50 and €80. In Albania and Serbia it’s sold between €70 and €110, while in Macedonia and in Bosnia between €60 and €100.

Albania leads the regional market with cheap marijuana, sold as low as €4 per gramme, whereas in other countries it costs between €5 and €10, according to police.

Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia this February, is a transit route for drugs smuggling into Europe. Its population of some 2 million people is not seen as being a strong market for narcotics.

	Cocaine	Heroin	Marijuana
Kosovo	€50 to €80	€10 to €25	€5 to €10
Serbia	€70 to €100	€25 to €35	€5 to €10
Albania	€70 to €110	€25	€4
Macedonia	€60 to €100	€25 to €40	€5 to €7
Bosnia	€60 to €100	€15 to €25	€5

Table 1: Prices of narcotics in Balkan countries. Source: BalkanInsight.com

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Comments:

2008-09-19 19:13:44

Well thats one way to atracht investors:-)

Narcotics
2008-09-20 02:51:43

Well that's one way to attract tourists. Especially college tourists. hehehe

2008-09-20 09:23:40

That's a bargain. I'll take 50 bushels of each.

badlands state
2008-09-20 16:53:53

If you keep researching, you may find that prostitutes, weapons and money laundering 'cuts' are also the cheapest this side of transdneister...

2008-09-21 03:58:35

Unfortunately,Actually in Serbia you can find both Cocaine & Heroin even cheaper. Especially Cocaine which is going as cheap as â‚¬40 for 1-gram.

drugs
2008-09-22 16:01:23

I should ask for permission to put my small store under dutch jurisdiction and turn it into a coffee shop! i bet id have shit loads of money in less than a year!!!

2008-09-23 12:29:38

hmmm where can i find that 4 â‚¬ marijuana? Can someone tell me coz i haven't seen that movie for a long time.

Dutchy
2008-09-23 13:36:58

Dutchy - You (and inded whoever wrote the article) may want to be a bit more careful. This could, of course all just reflect local market conditions i.e. everything is more expensive in the other countries named. The important concept is 'purchasing power' of currency, not per se prices. Pricing in Euros as the table does seems to assume that a Euro has the same purchasing power in each of the countries in the table. The Euro does not, in the real world at least, have the same purchasing power across the eurozone. None of the countires in the table were subject to EMU convergence criteria, the growth and stability pact etc. I once read that in 1990 the purchasing power of Yugoslav currency in the richest part of the country (Slovenia) was eight times greater than that in Kosovo which was the poorest by quite some way. Eight times is an extraordinary gap by any standard in a (nominally at least) federal state. That might give some food for thought to those that seem to believe that Kosovo was always somehow really well treated in days gone by.

2008-09-23 15:55:56

Balkan Insight didnt reveal anything. The prices were made public in TVs and newspapers after a press realese was sent by the Kosovo Police. What a revelation, no?! Keep the hard job.

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Kosovo, Cheapest Narcotics in Region