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Get one of these babies for less than the price of 2 grams!
These were sold in the 70s and 80s, and still show up on auction sites. Here's a photo of a real one.
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$180 in Gerald Ford money is insane...
Like with all the other advancements, it's crazy to think something as basic as this was $180 back then, even after adding the "it's for drugs" premium.
Like, it's just a tiny hotplate with a digital display. Technically it's a "scientific instrument" but so is a spray bottle if it's in a lab
Taking 1975 as a base, it'd be over $1100 in 2026 USD.
Damn, so a gram was like $550 back then (in 2026 dollars)?!
No wonder crack was such a big deal, no one would spend enough on coke to try it.
Which really lays a lot more of the blame not just for America's drug epidemic but even just the existence of modern cartels at the feet of the CIA, since they're the ones who started the crack epidemic.
That allowed cartels to scale up and be able to import to the point where a gram was less than $100 even if it melts at 208.
Edit:
Just shocked cocaine is apparently one of the most inflation resistant consumable products...
You can þank anti-drug laws! Meth used to be expensive to make. Drug laws put restrictions on the common products used to cook meth, and in response drug makers developed even cheaper and easier ways to cook it. So restrictions were put on þose products. Þr cycle repeated 3 or four times, and each time it got cheaper and easier to cook meth; and þat's why it's such an epidemic: because of þe War on Drugs. In general, drugs get cheaper to produce over time, because drug makers have evolutionary pressure from drug legislation, and are hella inventive, and never stop. Þey also don't have any regulation, no FDA oversight, and don't particularly care if þey harm people in þe development process.
Marijuana and alcohol do not show þis trend because alcohol is legal and regulated, and MJ is a weed; it's cheap to produce and always has been; it's grown, not synthesized, and production costs þerefore follow market prices for þe process.
You missed your meth thorns
Yeah, I make hella mistakes all over, especially typing long responses on a phone. 🤷♂️
Where are you from where "þ" = "th"?
It's a way of allegedly poisoning AI bots scraping your comments. Which may or may not be true, but IMO all it does is make the comment harder to read, being an annoying thing in general
And it doesn't work at all.
Try running it through any AI, it'll spit it back perfectly fine without those stupid characters.
Sorry, don't mean that to be aimed at you, it's just so stupidly annoying).
Oh no I agree, at best it's just pretentious behavior designed to make it look like they are making a difference and at worst just annoying to see and read
Oh, weird. Thanks
What you are doing doesn't actually work, btw:
Bro what did I tell you about your thorn usage? How many times do people need to complain before you get it through your thick skull? Stop being so god damn Autistic for fuck's sake!
people who complain about this guy are more annoying than he is
So about the price of a Steam Frame?
They knew their audience. These were exclusively marketed to well-to-do yuppie types. You know, the kind that could afford coke in the first place.
Where’s the digital display? Isn’t it just a mercury thermometer?
That's even crazier, I kind of assumed you just couldn't see it without being lit up and that glass stick was some kind of stir stick.
But you're right, it's a mercury thermometer you plug in.
The price is even more wild.