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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: cocaine</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/cocaine.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-05-13T12:34:03+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Drug seizures: how pure is street cocaine?</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/13/drug/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-05-13T12:34:03+00:00</published><updated>2009-05-13T12:34:03+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/13/drug/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/may/08/drugs-drugs-trade"&gt;Drug seizures: how pure is street cocaine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Neat story on the Guardian Datablog using graphs from Timetric to show that while the purity of cocaine seized by customs over the past five years has stayed constant, the purity of drugs seized by the police has been trending downwards.


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