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Yahoo: 'This is really quite dramatic': Cocaine is booming like never before
A massive surge in cocaine production has flooded markets around the world, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
In their latest annual report, UN researchers noted that “estimated global illicit manufacture of cocaine reached an all-time high of 1,976 tons… in 2017, an increase of 25 per cent on the previous year.”
Last year, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said that “drug markets are expanding, with cocaine and opium production hitting absolute record highs, presenting multiple challenges on multiple fronts.” This year, that trend continued with cocaine while opium production declined.
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Update: Why is Colombia's cocaine production so high? (DW)
WNU Editor: The UNODC's report is here .... The World Drug Report 2019.
3 comments:
I wonder how this compares to opium; we don't here much about it but it is a vital part of commerce in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan region.
this is nothing to sniff at
Opium is certainly similar. Most market stalls in Kabul will have a scale on hand so that you can pay with opium.
Both products are grown in areas which are controlled/supported by American military and intel agencies. It's almost inconceivable that the CIA doesn't manage the top of those supply chains now that they're responsible for their own funding on any project that they don't want to explain to the oversight committee. Business is booming too. This is how countries like Syria and Libya get torn apart. There are a lot of Czech businessmen who made their fortune trading drugs for the vast stockpiles of cold war era RPGs and hand grenades.
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