Street value

In crime and policing, street value or street price is the notional value of contraband in the target market in its finished state.[1] It is generally applied to narcotics, including prescription drugs.[2]

In the case of cannabis, street value may be based on extrapolation from plants at an early stage of growth.[3] This may even include growing the plants to harvest to assess factors such as THC content, as a counter to defendants' claims that seized crops were of poor quality or unlikely to mature.[4]

The street value is an estimate based on intelligence kept by enforcement agencies[5] and open source resources.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Street Value". www.encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "How Much Do Drugs Cost: The Steep Price Of Addiction". Addiction Center.
  3. ^ "How drug expert witnesses unveil cost of county's high-profile crime". www.nottinghamshire.police.uk.
  4. ^ "Why Britain's police forces have taken to cultivating cannabis". The Economist.
  5. ^ Tsai, Michelle (24 May 2007). "How Much for All That Heroin?". Slate.
  6. ^ "StreetRx".


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