Japan and Australia top the list for most expensive places for bad vices
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Bloomberg conducted a study on the price of a basket of goods such as tobacco, alcohol, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine and opioids in over 100 countries and found that Congo, Laos and Honduras rank among the best places to indulge in these habits based on cost alone.
Countries in which it is most expensive to dabble in the vices are Japan Australia and New Zealand. The reports states, “A market basket runs below $100 in 18 countries, all of which are emerging or frontier markets from Peru to Cambodia. Many of these places are in proximity to the source, such as the Golden Triangle of opium-producing region of Asia.”
The basket included “a bottle of alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and spirits; a gram of amphetamine-type stimulants, including amphetamine, methamphetamine and/or ecstasy; a gram of cannabis, including marijuana herb, hashish resin and/or cannabis oil; a gram of cocaine, regardless of salts, paste or base forms; a gram of opioids, including heroin and/or opium.”
Bloomberg’s study found that “Indulging in a weekly habit of drugs, booze and cigarettes can cost you as little as $41.40 in Laos and a whopping $1,441.50 in Japan”.
Read the original study here
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I wonder what rankings Thailand and Cambodia got… drugs and alcohol in these places are pretty cheap when you compare it to western countries.
Yea but law enforcement is pretty strict when it comes to drug offences and drug related crimes in Thailand. Farangs can get imprisoned for decades for simply possessing methaphetamine.