Argentina Black Market Value: $0.7361 Billion ($736.1 Million)

World Average: $15.54 Billion

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Data on Argentina


Price of Marijuana in the Americas

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in the Americas.

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram
Retail Price
(per gram)
Argentina 400 1.3
Bolivia 115 0.8
Brazil 150 0.3
Canada 4,714.3 15
Chile 1,223 5.3
Colombia 40.3 0.4
Mexico 80 NA
United States 2,000 10.4
Venezuela 90 1.9

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Price of Cocaine in the Americas

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Cocaine in the Americas.

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram
Retail Price
(per gram)
Argentina 4,800 5.9
Bolivia 2,250 3.5
Brazil 3,000 12
Canada 33,834 96.8
Chile 14,600 26.6
Colombia 2,198 NA
Mexico 12,500 NA
Peru 851 NA
United States 28,500 97.4

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

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Price of Ecstasy in the Americas

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Ecstasy in the Americas.

Country Wholesale Price
(per thousand tablets)
Retail Price
(per tablet)
Argentina 4,666 NA
Brazil 15,000 12
Canada 5,135.3 20.7
Chile 17,241.4 25
Colombia NA 22.6
Dominican Republic 16,000 19
Guatemala 6,550 7.9
United States 10,000 25
Venezuela NA 9.4

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

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Price of Heroin in the Americas

Prices are in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in the Americas.

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram)
Retail Price
(per gram)
Argentina 110,000 NA
Brazil 50,000 50
Canada 99,389.1 335.5
Colombia (No.4) 9,992 20.1
Ecuador 13,500 NA
Mexico (No.4) 35,000 NA
United States (No.4) 71,200 131
Venezuela 9,300 11.6

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009:  Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Coins trading on the black market in Argentina

Regular coins are being traded on the black market in Argentina as citizens fight inflation at record levels.

From the AP (via the IHT):

A kiosk owner bribes a bank worker with cookies to break bills. Subway workers let commuters ride free because they can’t change their cash. Bus companies resell the coins they collect at a steep black market markup.

Argentines are increasingly scrambling to get their hands on pocket change for everyday transactions, as soaring inflation makes the copper and aluminum that coins are made of worth more than their face value. Many suspect profit-seeking hoarders are scooping them up to stow away.

Argentine annual inflation officially hit 8.7 percent in September, but independent economists say the government is lowballing that rate, which they claim is closer to 25 percent.

Argentina providing ephedrine for Mexican meth traffickers

Argentina is now supplying a large portion of ephedrine, the main ingredient in methamphetamine, to drug traffickers in Mexico.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Mexican traffickers have become the main suppliers of methamphetamine to the United States. But a crackdown in Mexico has squeezed supplies of ephedrine from Asia, leading the gangs to seek their raw material in Argentina, a nation with a robust pharmaceutical industry, relatively few controls and a reputation for corrupt cops and customs inspectors.

The Mexican-Argentine relationship has proved an expedient marriage: abundant product, a compliant host nation and an efficient trafficking network. But the brutal killings have exposed the perils of courting Mexican drug rings.

“When Mexican traffickers arrive they bring in organized crime and violence,” said Special Agent Michael Sanders, a spokesman in Washington for the Drug Enforcement Administration. “That has unfortunately proved to be the case in Argentina.”

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