San Juan Record | 1934-12-13 | Page 7 | Illicit Drug Profits

illicit drug profits profit the llie most profitable business in the world today Is the handling ot of illicit narcot narcotics les the manufacturer of heroin for instance makes it for 25 a pound and sells it to his distributors tribu tors for 1225 which Is a profit of per cent the distributors in ID turn sell fell it in small quantities to consumers at the rate of a pound which Is a profit for them of more than per cent the cost to the user consequently Is one half million per cent of the manufacturers cost price colliers weekly