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Excerpt from Review of the Internal Administration's Study Critical of Clinton Drug Policy and White House Suppression of Study: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, October 1, 1996 The reviewers are quite correct to take the ida analysis to task for failing to distinguish between retail and wholesale prices in using the stride data to construct their price series (figure 1, page Because unit price decreases with the quantity purchased, the use of quantities above normal retail transactions (5 grams according to one reviewer) must have the effect of lowering the calculated prices. The introduction of non-retail price data into the retail price calculations invalidates the entire series. Furthermore. Even if there is shown to be a correlation between price increases and specific interdiction campaigns, causation has yet to be demonstrated. What role did other events that occurred at these same periods in time have on the observed price movement? How much of the 1990 price increase may be due to the bringing down of the Medellin cartel, the expanded power of the Cali cartel, and other events in Panama and Mexico in 1990 (as the reviewers have suggested)? Were there other events in this and other years that might have contributed to price increases? How much. If any of the correlation is caused by source-zone interdiction and how much is caused by other factors? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.