How Much Does a Gram of Cocaine Cost on the Street?

cocaine’s market value is prohibitive. Two or three kilos of high-quality cocaine is enough to pay a regular employee working in a small company for a year. The price, however, is not an issue for people who depend on cocaine to get high.

Many people tend to limit the cocaine’s cost to its tag price and, sometimes, jail terms. The real cost of cocaine, however, is beyond its tag price. Lives wasted, families destroyed, community disrupted, these are all prices for using cocaine.

The Actual Cost

Cocaine prices vary directly with its purity, the amount you are buying, where you are buying, and with whom you are dealing with. Generally, a kilo of cocaine costs anywhere from $12,000 to $35,000. Grassroots dealers normally dilute the supply they get with extenders and sell it at a much higher price, normally from $20 to a high of $100 a gram. Crack rock prices vary depending on the size of the rock, which usually ranges from 1/10 to 1/2 grams. They cost anywhere from $3 to $50 a piece, but there are normally priced at $10 to $20.

Columbia, the world biggest producer of coca (and reputedly the source of cocaine), tags its cocaine at $2 a gram. Cocaine costs the highest in New Zealand where, in 2005, a gram of coke costs $714.3. Furthermore, differences in retail price and wholesale prices do exist within a country, which is normally dependent on the government’s level of intervention and domestic competition.

The True Cost

The true cost of cocaine, however, runs far greater than its actual cost. Unfortunately, many cocaine users forget how much the cost is when cocaine enters their system. When you speak of buying cocaine, you are speaking not only of hospital bills, funeral service, jail time, fines, and criminal liabilities. Here, you are talking about something you can actually pay with real money. That’s nothing. Some of the losses, however, are far greater than what was listed above. You are also thinking of throwing away your life, your family, your job, your future, and your dignity.

When you speak of true cost, you are also speaking of the cost beyond the homes of cocaine users. Some users buy the dose of cocaine through criminal activities like prostitution, gambling, robbery, and even murder. You are also speaking of kidnapping, terrorism, degradation of the environment, and other problems particularly in countries like Columbia. Putting it simply, abusing cocaine not only destroy your life: it also destroy somebody else’s lives.

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13 comments on “How Much Does a Gram of Cocaine Cost on the Street?”

1. Name skriver:
   January 18th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

   “Columbia, the world biggest producer of coca (and reputedly the source of cocaine), tags its cocaine at $2 a gram.”

   It’s Colombia. With an “O”

2. JOrdan skriver:
   January 31st, 2009 at 1:26 pm

   Wow 2 Bucks a gram?? hmm cocaine is 70 bucks a gram n biritish columbia. dont ask how i know

3. android skriver:
   February 17th, 2009 at 6:03 am

   dude its anywhere from 250 a gram to 400 a gram here in sydney australia

4. Joe skriver:
   May 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm

   LMFAO @ —-> Unfortunately, many cocaine users forget how much the cost is when cocaine enters their system. When you speak of buying cocaine, you are speaking not only of hospital bills, funeral service, jail time, fines, and criminal liabilities.

5. SyR1S skriver:
   January 6th, 2010 at 7:42 pm

   so every time you eat a big mac, a big mac costs more like 100 bucks atleast, you have to work in the cost for all the damage they cause to peoples bodys, the heart checkups, heart attacks, coke a cola (yes the drink) should cost around 150 a can because its very bad for you. WHAT ABOUT CIGGERETTES, ciggerttes cost 2000 dollars a pack according to your logic, as they kill more people and is WAY WAY more dangerious then cocaine!

   Why all news biased!

6. carmody skriver:
   July 20th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

   Because I googled this I would like to make it very clear that I am not a buyer or seller of any illict drug, only using this site to prove the crazy price of coke. Thank you.

7. Kristina skriver:
   August 30th, 2010 at 1:07 am

   I love ur website! it helped me learn how much drugs cost for my health assignment!

   Thx alot guys

8. Finders Keepers skriver:
   October 1st, 2010 at 2:40 am

   Someone has hidden a big plastic bag full, about a kilo of the stuff on our property and if it sells for $714 a gram in NZ it may be worth it to $714,000 but i don’t take drugs. Maybe its those 3 young blokes who sit out the front drinking at night and every now and then they duck down the side and they put something in a plastic bag and light it, then sort of suck on the plastic bag. I think I’ll put it in the garbage bin and give them a kick in the arse.

9. Mike Fields skriver:
   January 28th, 2011 at 4:40 am

   The “True Cost” of any drug would be far less if there was not a prohibition on them. The act of banning a substance instantly creates a criminal market where all sorts of bad things happen. So if there is anyone to blame for the “Drug Problem” it’s the Government for banning these substances rather than educating the public in a way that makes them less inclined to use a drug.

10. Ross skriver:
    May 1st, 2011 at 4:27 am

    If it was a decriminalized or even legalized substance it would’nt cost up to $700 per gram, more along the lines of the cost of cigarettes, which are equally harmful.

11. poopsky smith skriver:
    June 12th, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    Because I googled this I would like to make it very clear that I am not a buyer or seller of any illict drug, only using this site to prove the crazy price of coke. Just found out my husband started using coke recently and money is disappearing fast! Thank you.

12. sparky skriver:
    February 7th, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Great website!!!

13. David Fisher skriver:
    February 16th, 2012 at 2:08 am

    My question arises, how many people die from prescription drugs and what makes them more acceptable? And the other drug of choice food is killing as proof of the obvious obesity problem!

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