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Slate has 1,200 words today on Colombian public policy, the South American country's new Justice and Peace Law, the history of its right-wing paramilitaries, the economics of drug trafficking, and why all of these factors are leading cocaine wholesalers to ship excess product to the United States.

It's all leading to the only detail in the story you care about:

The American street price for a gram of coke should be falling appreciably.

We really hope our dealer got the memo.

A Big Drug Party [Slate]