Kiwis love a bargain, but you’re not going to get one if you’re after real party drugs in New Zealand, according to new figures.
New Zealanders told the Global Drug Survey (GDS) 2018 they paid more than $360 on average for a gram of cocaine – nearly four times what Americans said they paid.
Kiwis also paid the most for MDMA pills, and the fourth-highest price for LSD compared with the 20 countries surveyed in the GDS.
The survey is an annual stocktake of drug habits around the world, released today. Stuff is the GDS media partner in New Zealand.
Our small population and the high risks associated with border control have long made party drugs expensive, NZ Drug Foundation director Ross Bell said. He warned ‘bargains’ were often not the real thing.
“Because things like coke and MDMA are so expensive, Kiwis ’cause we’re cheap asses we will buy the shittier but cheaper drugs,” Bell said.
“This is why meth became so big in New Zealand because we couldn’t get our hands on MDMA and coke and thought f… it, we will just make our own drug, and make a potent thing out of cold and flu medicine and whatever.”
Pills had a greater chance of being real MDMA, said Bell, who is also in the drug quality control group, Know Your Stuff NZ.
“With crystals or white powders we have tested we’re more likely to say ‘sorry you have one of these cathinones.'”
Cathinones are a family of synthetics also referred to as bath salts or the zombie drug, and can have dire consequences if taken as liberally as MDMA.
The most common cathinone seen this year was n-ethylpentylone, Know Your Stuff director Wendy Allison said.
“People sort of double drop MDMA and if they do what they think is MDMA and drop this stuff that’s actually six doses.”
The consequences of that can be serious anxiety, paranoia, and not being able to sleep for up to 36 hours, she said.
Allison believed the premium prices here could be why some Kiwis were reluctant to toss imitations.
When Allison tests drugs at festivals around the country, more that 50 per cent of people will want to destroy them if they’re not what they expected, she said. But many won’t.
“Less than 50 per cent still want to take it, but they might say ‘I’m going to approach this with much more caution now.’
“It almost feels like the price and availability in New Zealand is making people less willing to part with their drugs.”
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