{"id":13360,"date":"2013-12-03T13:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2013-12-03T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:11:44","slug":"like-gas-drugs-apparently-expensive-in-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/12\/03\/like-gas-drugs-apparently-expensive-in-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Like gas, drugs apparently expensive in the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13365\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/MarijuanaJoint.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13365\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13365\" alt=\"The price of marijuana in Jefferson County is apparently comparatively high. Photo: Torben HansenCreative Commons, some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/MarijuanaJoint-450x450.jpg\" width=\"362\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/MarijuanaJoint-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/MarijuanaJoint-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/MarijuanaJoint-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/MarijuanaJoint.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The price of marijuana in Jefferson County is apparently comparatively high, at $200-$250 per ounce. Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21067003@N07\/2298921212\/in\/photolist-4v9zbC-a845m8-89xTFR-6ViSDN-383k4B-383pMK-383fBM-383j5K-387Sbb-387STs-387RyC-3881Pj-387YqU-387XS5-387KBd-387Jq3-383aVD-383kz2-383c5H-387HWf-387Vym-3883rL-387QDo-3881am-383h6r-387Qd3-383m1F-383mTv-383nnF-38828C-383q5c-383sYk-387ZME-383swp-383nJB-383jvz-387Xdm-383ian-5sa3Yd-9eYRVy-383dvF-387N1E-387Mh7-383ept-383cCT-axD36k-383ePz-7PSHbT-9eYUFj-9usxtM-bAQy2x\">Torben Hansen<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We all talk about the cost of living here in the North Country: Gas is expensive, real estate is relatively cheap, and so forth. But what about the price of street drugs? In his series &#8220;Life in a Northern Town&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/section\/COL11\">Watertown Daily Times reporter Daniel Flatley this week has addressed that very question.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The answer is kind of fascinating: Turns out heroin is the drug of choice in Jefferson County, with a cost of about $100-$120 per bundle of 10 postage stamp-sized bags (that price is down from last year); crack is <em>much <\/em>more expensive here than downstate; and pot users are paying a premium price up here at $200-$250 per ounce. Meanwhile, meth is fairly hard to find, Flatley reports, because it&#8217;s mostly cooked in small batches and sold privately.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot more detail in the article. It&#8217;s really interesting if this is your sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all talk about the cost of living here in the North Country: Gas is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13506,6831,878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13369,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}