[Benjamin]

Cocaine price 'set to fall more'

The price of cocaine has plunged in recent years
The price of cocaine in Europe is set to fall even further as smugglers use new routes through West Africa and the Balkans, says the UN anti-drugs agency.

In its latest report, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said West Africa has become a "major hub" for South American cocaine smuggling.

UK officials said last week that the price of cocaine had fallen by half in the last 10 years.

The INCB said prices would continue to fall unless the supply was curtailed.

INCB President Hamid Ghodse said more needed to be done to intercept shipments of cocaine and other drugs.

"The route of transporting for traffickers has become relatively easier and less susceptible to interdiction," he said.

'Cocaine stockpiles'

The INCB's annual report says South America's main producers of cocaine - in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia - were switching their smuggling routes from the Caribbean and the North Atlantic to avoid US and British naval patrols.

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The smugglers are targeting countries with "weak governmental structures that have limited capacity to defend themselves against drug trafficking and its consequences, such as corruption and drug abuse", the INCB warns.

The Balkans - traditionally used to smuggle heroin from Afghanistan and Central Asia into western Europe - are now increasingly being used as a supply line to bring cocaine into Europe.

Stockpiles of cocaine are being built up in West Africa from where it is smuggled into Europe, either directly or via the Balkans, the report says.

The INCB also reports:


Criminal gangs are posing as fictitious companies to obtain the chemicals needed to manufacture illicit drugs such as amphetamines and ecstasy
Canada has become a primary source of ecstasy for North America and a significant supplier for Asia
Poppy cultivation has shrunk in Afghanistan but the country still produces more than 90% of the world's opium
Illegal online pharmacies are selling pharmaceutical drugs - or counterfeit versions - without prescription.

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7898087.stm

[arista]

Yes they send it all over the place to get here
what is very wrong is getting young kids onto this hard stuff.


Also that new ad on TV
Ask Frank - Cannabis
with the bloke walking around like a nutter in many ways
is mean't for 14 year old as well
but I guess they will laugh at it.

Youtube video

[Hugo]

Ooh, I'll have to get me some.
:P

[Ross]

Yay

[Fom]

It bugs me when people do cocaine, im not usually bothered by drugs, pills and spliffs I don't mind people doing, they are not that hardcore. But Cocaine goes through me mega... eugh. Crack heads. Get a life.

[Sod_James]

never touched drugs in my life and i never will. God i get high on a packet of skittles so i would be terrible if i was on drugs they would probably kill me

[arista]

Originally posted by Fom
It bugs me when people do cocaine, Im not usually bothered by drugs, pills and spliffs I don't mind people doing, they are not that hardcore. But Cocaine goes through me mega... eugh. Crack heads. Get a life.

Fom
what do you think of that cannabis ad
many have said it is a joke.

[arista]

Originally posted by Sod_James
never touched drugs in my life and i never will. God i get high on a packet of skittles so i would be terrible if i was on drugs they would probably kill me

skittles may get you high on E numbers.





Natural High is best

Having good sex

Eating Sweet and Crisp South African Red grapes

Playing Drums

[Fom]

Originally posted by arista

Fom
what do you think of that cannabis ad
many have said it is a joke.

It is a bit, cannabis doesn't do that unless you really over do it. Like smoke it every day. When my friends do it, or when I have done it in the past it has been for the giggles that you get a long with it, i have only ever had it on a night out. And it does less damage than alcohol.

[Shaun]

Excellent.

[Sod_James]

Originally posted by arista

skittles may get you high on E numbers.





Natural High is best

Having good sex

Eating Sweet and Crisp South African Red grapes

Playing Drums

Lol well i cant really go into a shop pick up good sex off the shelf or 40 odd pence and walk out so Skittles will have to do for now.

[andyman]

What about that red stuff on Robocop 2? That stuff they inject into their necks and they love it and want more and more of it!