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<br /> <br /> self-interested party in this program: both direct overtime in <br /> <br /> the form of federal grants and forfeiture money for general- <br /> <br /> purpose computers are direct benefits to the department. This <br /> <br /> department has dollar-reasons for maintaining this program and in <br /> <br /> demonstrating its success. Thus, it should be initially supposed <br /> <br /> that the department's numbers quoted for street-price would be <br /> <br /> generally on the high side. Compared to other measures of the <br /> <br /> street-price, this turns out to be true. <br /> <br /> With a temporary price rise in 1993, the police department <br /> <br /> begins to report the price per ounce more accurately to the <br /> <br /> council as a reason to justify continued funding. Lt. Chai <br /> <br /> reports the price for an ounce of marijuana as Soo dollars in <br /> <br /> July of 1993.28 Three months later, the police report the price <br /> <br /> is $800 an ounce. 29 <br /> <br /> Over the next three years, the price drastically falls. Lt. <br /> <br /> Chai reports the street-price per ounce of marijuana in 1996 at <br /> <br /> 300 dollars. 30 Graph # 3 represents the police departments <br /> <br /> estimates of street-price from 1980 to 1996 as well as other <br /> <br /> estimates. <br /> <br /> b_......_.. THMO <br /> <br /> "High Times" is a monthly magazine primarily aimed at those <br /> <br /> who smoke, trade, and grow marijuana. Every month for nearly <br /> <br /> twenty years, the magazine has included a page entitled "Trans <br /> <br /> High Market Quotations" which tracks the current price of various <br /> <br /> kinds of marijuana in different parts of the United States. <br /> <br /> The average price per ounce for triple-A grade Hawaiian tops <br /> <br /> <br /> 7 <br />