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While cocaine cultivation and demand are always in a state of flux, the UN's research into global cocaine production and consumption suggests that the world's cocaine trade is in decline.
Manufacturers are attempting to streamline a production process that virtually eliminates oxidation to produce cocaine base. Some laboratories are not using sulfuric acid during the maceration state; consequently, less cocaine alkaloid is extracted from the leaf, producing less cocaine hydrochloride, the powdered cocaine marketed for overseas ...
A piece of compressed cocaine powder. Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in the US behind cannabis, [14] and the US is the world's largest consumer of cocaine. [15] According to the DEA, about 93% of the cocaine in the US originated in Colombia and was smuggled across the Mexico–US border. [16]
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of involvement in the trafficking of illicit drugs.Books and journalistic investigations on the subject that have received general notice include works by the historian Alfred McCoy, professor and diplomat Peter Dale Scott, journalists Gary Webb and Alexander Cockburn, and writer Larry Collins.
Fighting the cocaine trade remains a priority for the United States even as it works to tackle more lethal, synthetic drugs like fentanyl, the director of the U.S. narcotics control agency said.
A massive surge in cocaine production has flooded markets around the world, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Coca eradication in Colombia. Coca eradication is a strategy promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "war on drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine.
Crops of coca - cocaine's main ingredient - rose 13% last year in Colombia to hit a record 2,300 square kilometers (568,342 acres), while its potential cocaine production rose 24% to 1,738 metric ...