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Cocaine in sentence

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Credible estimates put the total flow of income from production and distribution of cocaine at between US$2.5 and US$4 billion annually, or between 2.8% and 4.4% of Colombia’s GDP.
These so-called "wars" are part of the same conflict that prompted the peasant blockades of September 2000, the continuing protests by coca growers against efforts to eradicate their crops because of their role in the cocaine trade, and the withdrawal earlier this year of a progressive tax project.
Cashews, shrimp, and cocaine.
More than four tons of cocaine have been seized in West Africa this year, a 35% increase over the entire haul for 2006.
West Africa is an ideal staging point along the route from South America to the cocaine markets of Europe.
Moreover, Africa’s weak states offer the least resistance as a substitute for traditional cocaine smuggling routes in Central America and the Caribbean, which are being blocked.
If you reach the scene of the drop in time, the next challenge is to build a makeshift roadblock to stop the truck from off-loading the cocaine.
Restrictions on the transshipment of cocaine from South America to the US have made only a dent in street prices, which spiked in 2008 but have stabilized in 2009 at levels well below their historical highs in the 1990’s.
Mexico was then a producer of heroin and marijuana, and a transit country for cocaine from South America.
With a few minor exceptions, migration is internal to the region, and a modus vivendi has been reached with the drug trade, mainly coca leaf and cocaine in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.
America’s insatiable demand for cocaine has made Mexico a transit route from South American producers.
A Looming Anti-Depressants CrisisThe widespread prescription of drugs for troubled minds has always ended badly, right back to the days of opiates and cocaine, up through bromides, barbiturates, and tranquilizers: all proved to be highly addictive drugs, but only after years of denial did doctors admit that this was so.
This criminal insurgency is fueled not by popular support, but by the spoils of the cocaine trade.
Some 13,000 paramilitaries such as the United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia (AUC), Bloque Central Bolivar, Alianza Oriente, and Vencedores de Arauca now challenge the cocaine Marxists for political control of rural areas.
Mexico is consumed by its failed drug war, which has cost more than 25,000 lives and, according to just published US government statistics, has deterred Colombian cocaine traffickers, but has fostered dramatic increases in Mexican production of heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamines.
The fifth one wanted to become a chemist, so that he could set up a cocaine laboratory.
I sat once with an official at a London airport who picked up a Kenyan woman bringing cocaine into the United Kingdom.
In reality, the half-kilo of cocaine brought a ten-year mandatory sentence.
Coke Is It in EuropeEuropean leaders need to get serious about Europe’s cocaine problem.
Cocaine used to be America’s problem, to the point that the United States started a major campaign against sellers and consumers of crack cocaine in the inner cities, drug traffickers, and suppliers in the Andes.
But now demand for cocaine in most of the world is stable or dropping.
Coca cultivation has been slashed by a quarter in the past five years, and seizures of cocaine have almost doubled.
An impressive 42% of all of the world’s cocaine was seized in 2005.
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence indicating traces of cocaine found on bank notes and in water supplies.
For the first time, the level of cocaine use in Spain – 3% of the population aged 15 to 64 – now exceeds that in the US.
In 2005, 2.4% of the UK population used cocaine at least once, up sharply from 0.6% a decade earlier.
Ten years ago, 20% of all new clients entering treatment for drug abuse in the Netherlands were addicted to cocaine.
Europe’s growing cocaine problem is due to several factors.
First, drug users in Europe are switching to cocaine from heroin.
It seems many Europeans need to be reminded that cocaine is highly addictive and harmful.
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