"of last fall dealers in (country_name) quoted prices ranging from $33 to $133 a gram, which at the top end is double the price of gold and can exceed the price of cocaine."
I'll give the source and fill in the rest of the details later. Don't want to give it away prematurely.
Can you guess the commodity?
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Is it political wisdom?
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Is it cannabis?
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A signed Wayne Gretzky rookie hockey card?
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frankincense or myrrh
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whale poop...
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sildenafil citrate
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I thought about that, but I don't think it would ever exceed the price of cocaine.Storm wrote: Is it cannabis?
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Unicorn skittles...
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Saffron?
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SteveGo got it: rhino horn. It's in this month's (March 2012 issue) National Geographic. The main buyers are in Vietnam, which only makes sense to me because it was banned in China. That's not to say China doesn't import it, but it's more difficult than in previous decades. There's a very sad photo of a hornless rhino at the beginning of the story, that had to be euthanized soon after it was discovered.
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damn... i was sure it was going to be whale poop ( Ambergris )
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Rhino horn works better than viagra AND you are temporarily immune to HIV.
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Let's let the Rhino's keep their horns and stick with ViagraTripleB wrote: Rhino horn works better than viagra AND you are temporarily immune to HIV.
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I thought that was whale phlegm.l82start wrote: damn... i was sure it was going to be whale poop ( Ambergris )
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I'm impressed that someone got it.
Q: “Do you have funny shaped balloons?”
A: “Not unless round is funny.”
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same thing... byproduct of the whales lower digestive system/intestines, it can exit from either end, it sells at around the same per gram price (give or take) as your rhino horn...dualstow wrote:I thought that was whale phlegm.l82start wrote: damn... i was sure it was going to be whale poop ( Ambergris )
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yep ugh.... but i wouldn't hesitate for a second to scoop it up and drag it home if i found some on a beach, and what a great "how i made my first million" story you'd have to tell, while sitting around the gentleman's club sipping brandy and smoking cigars,
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my guess was whatever the "rarest" of the rare earth metals is