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Items found at a meth production lab in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 2009. Clandestine chemistry is chemistry carried out in secret, and particularly in illegal drug laboratories. Larger labs are usually run by gangs or organized crime intending to produce for distribution on the black market. Smaller labs can be run by individual chemists ...
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. Cocaine
Known as "poor man's cocaine," captagon is an addictive amphetamine-like stimulant banned in many countries but worth billions of dollars in trade. Discovery of vast Syrian drug lab reveals ...
A massive surge in cocaine production has flooded markets around the world, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The UN estimates that 35,148 of 54,608 metric tons produced in Bolivia is sold in unauthorized markets dominated by the cocaine trade, most of it from coca production in the Chapare. [3] Sales of coca leaf amounted to approximately US$265 million in 2009, representing 14% of all agricultural sales and 2% of Bolivia's GDP. [4]
Colombia is as of 2019 the world's largest cocaine producer, with production more than tripling since 2013. [220] [221] Three-quarters of the world's annual yield of cocaine has been produced in Colombia, both from cocaine base imported from Peru (primarily the Huallaga Valley) and Bolivia and from locally grown coca. There was a 28% increase ...
Days after the Secret Service found a plastic bag containing cocaine in the White House in July 2023, Rep. James Comer announced a probe to find out whom it belonged to.. However, less than a ...
It is structurally similar to cocaine, which is the methyl ester of benzoylecgonine. Cocaethylene is formed by the liver when cocaine and ethanol coexist in the blood. [1] In 1885, cocaethylene was first synthesized (according to edition 13 of the Merck Index), [2] and in 1979, cocaethylene's side effects were discovered. [3]