er availability of the drug, therefore, lowering consumption.

The price of illicit drugs is not regulated by the authority or enforceable through the legal system rather, the price is determined by the traffickers who are willing to continue and encourage the production of the crop (opium). If the Law enforcement agent intervenes by destroying the illicit crops farm, the producers will have to relocate to different location to continue production and change their mode of operation which may either be changes in concealment and tactics aimed at reducing risk irrespective of the challenges; as the cost of production is far lower than the product itself. Despite the risks associated with the production of illicit drugs, the traffickers will pay the farmers to move to another location to continue their farming as the farmers has no alternative means of livelihood; however the profit margin of the drug will drop, but will not affect the dealers as they will still be able to get their supply. The only result of that effect is that it will create scarcity, leading to a price increase. The price elasticity of illicit drug is vital, irrespective of the economic consequences of illicit drug and also in accessing the consequence to the consumers who abuse the drug, as it is the assumption is that, higher prices will reduce the level of drug consumption.
According to the United Nation report, after the plant disease that wiped out almost half of Afghanistan’s opium crop yields in 2010, the yield increased from 3600 tonnes in 2010, to 5800 tonnes in 2011, which brought price increase, as a result of the crop destruction, and in 2011, the opium global production rose to about 7000 tones, however; during the corresponding year the shift of illicit drug consumption reduced in Europe and North America, showing that the price of drugs could be determined by containment policy and risk but not by consumption level.
Increased seizures of illicit drugs in international and national borders are risk contributing factors. The European Monitoring Centre for Drug and Drug Addictions Reitex Surveillance network, statistics indicates that between 1995 and 2009, it is estimated that illicit dru