Tuesday, 20. November 2007
Topic: DRUGS - on November 20, 2007 at 5:38:00 PM CET
UK drugs trade tops £7bn, study shows
There are about 300 major drug importers into Britain, 3,000 wholesalers and 70,000 street dealers producing a turnover of £7-8bn a year, according to an internal Home Office estimate revealed today.
This official indication of the astonishing scale of the drugs trade in Britain, although very rough, has led Home Office researchers to calculate that by value it represents about a third of the size of the tobacco market in Britain and two-fifths of the trade in alcohol.
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