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- <text id=91TT2927>
- <title>
- Dec. 30, 1991: The Low Cost of Getting High
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 30, 1991 The Search For Mary
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- The Low Cost Of Getting High
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Upset about skyrocketing marijuana prices in the U.S.,
- which range to $800 per oz.? Then book a flight to
- Czechoslovakia. A garden-supply chain in Prague is selling 1-lb.
- packages of pot imported from neighboring Romania for the
- equivalent of just 85 cents. According to the manager of the
- state-owned company, the weed is an effective "fertilizer."
- Thanks to the country's confused postcommunist legal system, it
- is not against the law just to purchase the "fertilizer." When
- the product's availability was disclosed in the Czechoslovak
- weekly Mlady Svet, dozens of Prague teenagers developed a sudden
- interest in gardening.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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