i went to see a professor in my department, peter reuter, one of the most well-respected drug researchers in the nation. acid is gone, i told him. how did you come to this theory, he asked. i can't find it, i said, and none of my friends can either. i knew i sounded like a fool that was all i had. that's not how we do things in this field, he said. drug available goes in cycles. it's not a series of trend, that's just how it is. he pointed to a book behind me. hear, hand me that. he opened the 200 to report produced by the university of michigan and tracks drug use among american teen spirit as you will see, he said running his fingers across the lsd table, u.s has been fairly steady over the last -- he paused and looked up. that's interesting he said, looking at the data for high school students. lsd is at a low, 3.5%. he then continued with his lecture telling me about supply and demand and peaks and valleys and he was certain the numbers would rise in the 2003 survey. drug cycles are widely presumed to be the result of a combination of cultural shifts and effectiveness of drug interdic

peter reuter who helped me with my article has made a career out of examining economics of the local businesses. one of his most startling observations is the coke trade indeed in the entire drug trade is essentially a service industry because the street price of a dose of cocaine is many times higher than the cost of nearly manufacturing. as with any detail good some of the excess covers the seller's profit. some covers what accountants call transportation costs which much more goes to the disking product seizure and employee unrest the principal perils of providing an illegal service. those panels become less significant the more the south florida coast industry became entrenched as cocaine's price fell through the decade it became available to consumers of more moderate means. it trickled down so to speak spreading across the country in both powder and crack form. during its high-priced haiti, however, coke was known as a professional drug. employees of the legal service industry benefited from this product of the illegal service industry as they worked long hours in their sector