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In South America, coca paste, also known as cocaine base and, therefore, often confused with cocaine sulfate in North America, is relatively inexpensive and is widely used by low-income consumers. The coca paste is smoked in tobacco or cannabis cigarettes and use has become widespread in several Latin American countries.
Most cocaine is grown and processed in South America, particularly in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and smuggled into the United States and Europe, the United States being the world's largest consumer of cocaine, [164] where it is sold at huge markups; usually in the US at $80–120 for 1 gram, and $250–300 for 3.5 grams ( 1 / 8 of an ounce ...
Authorities found 349 packages in vats of jalapeño paste containing over 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine and over 500 pounds of cocaine at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility, according to a news ...
Use and possession of cocaine is illegal. Possession of cocaine is explicitly named as an illegal substance under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. The possession 10 grams or more of cocaine or cocaine hydrochloride is punishable by up to life imprisonment. [28] Peru: Legal (up to 2 grams of cocaine or 5 grams of cocaine-freebase ...
A 28-year-old man caught some heat with the US Customs and Border Protection in Southern California after officers say they found thousands of pounds of narcotics hidden in a jalapeño paste shipment.
Customs agents pulled almost 2 tons of drugs from dozens of vats of fiery jalapeño paste that had been seized from a commercial tractor-trailer near the Otay Mesa border.
Erythroxylum is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae.Many of the approximately 200 species contain the tropane alkaloid cocaine, [1] [2] and two of the species within this genus, Erythroxylum coca and Erythroxylum novogranatense, both native to South America, are the main commercial source of cocaine and of the mild stimulant coca tea. [3]
The cocaine has an estimated street value of more than $239 million. It was recovered off the coasts of Mexico, Central America, and South America by two U.S. Coast Guard ships in November, the ...