Guess Which Country Pays the Most for Illicit Drugs?

The latest Bloomberg Global Vice Index, an annual price tracker of illicit drugs, reveals that Americans pay more for their illegal substances than residents of any other country in the world except for New Zealand (#2) and Australia (#1)—and drugs cost 40 percent more here than they did last year. Luxembourg was the cheapest place to buy illicit drugs, with the Netherlands coming in second.

The index measured the cost in each country of a so-called “basket of vice”—composed of a gram of cocaine, a gram of “amphetamine-type stimulants such as methamphetamine or ecstasy,” a gram of cannabis, and a gram of opioids such as heroin or opium.

The price of this basket increased from last year in over half of the countries in the index, with the US experiencing one of the biggest surges—to $846 for one “basket of vice.”

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