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While the shopping cart is getting more and more expensive, the price of a gram of cocaine is falling. The quantity that is produced worldwide and that reaches our country is apparently large enough to put pressure on the price. The price for a gram fluctuates around 50 euros. In the past ten years, the number of users in Flanders doubled from 0.8% to 1.7%. That amounts to about 180,000 users, or a city of cocaine sniffers the size of twice Mechelen.