Why cocaine is expensive: Time for a real war on drugs | Ryan Handlarski

By Ryan Handlarski ( March 6, 2018, 9:04 AM EST) -- Why is the price of cocaine so damn high? Cocaine looks just like sugar, but I can walk into any Starbucks and get a gram of sugar for free. Cocaine would cost me around $100 per gram. This is the principal question that we must be concerned with in order to understand, and reduce, the incentives for drug trafficking....