The retail price of hashish, he added, was now about €2,000, or $2,855, a kilo, up from €800 when he entered jail in 2006.
"This limited availability and demand has driven the price per kilo up and any lobsters that are caught are being sold for a high price".
With the vegetable selling at 85 rupees (about $2) a kilo, up from 10 rupees six months back, the staple of the average Indian household has gone extortionate.
I tried about 10 places over five days, from cheap (around 18 Turkish lira a kilogram) to pricey (40 a kilo and up).
This is a violent reaction on the small scale, so they'd just throw in a kilo, hook up a pressure-relief valve, and hope for the best!
According to a study by an economist, Peter Reuter, Latin American-produced cocaine is as much as 10 times cheaper to transport because it is usually shipped in bigger batches, 250 kilos and up.
That's starting from 900 kilos on up, and females have a natural maternal instinct, so as soon as they become mums you can sometimes see one cow with about ten calves around her. They're very tolerant so it doesn't matter what kind of climate, whether it's in Victoria or Northern Territory, they're very acclimatized".
You might think of a strongman as being a typical meathead, just caning protein and pulling trucks, but it couldn't be further from the truth: Hall is introspective, intelligent, fully aware of every atom of his body, and even more so in tune with his mind, the secret weapon when it comes to talking things into existence and lifting 500 kilos up off the ground.
A kilo can fetch up to 30 cents in the local market, a not insignificant sum in a region that is extremely poor.
Today he says he is lucky if he manages just half a kilo even after up to 12 hours far out at sea in his small outrigger boat, or bangka.
Sheer intelligence isn't going to cut it in boxing, though (and charisma certainly isn't) – you also need strength, and here Kom was at a profound disadvantage, since her weight category had been removed from the classification and she has had to put on five kilos to get up to 51kg.
