Since Argentina’s 1991 economic crash its streets have been flooded with Paco, a highly addictive inexpensive narcotic derived from cocaine. Deadliest Drugs, short film Argentina’s New Crack, Manuel Contreras
Jonny was addicted to Paco. He now lives in a squat in La Boca where he tries to look after his friends suffering from addiction. ibid.
Paco is popular in the poorest neighbourhoods. Groups of mothers banded together to fight the spread of Paco. ibid.
Paco addiction kills at least two people a week in La Boca. ibid.
I personally witnessed complicity between these two men – Bush and Clinton – in terms of transporting cocaine into the US for the purpose of sale to generate money to fight a war – that war at the time was the conflict in central America involving the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Terry Reed, Air Force Intelligence, interview Alex Jones
Cocaine: It’s been described as the alchemy of prohibition. Howard Marks on Drugs
Cocaine is a global business. From coca farmers in Colombia to trafficking cartels in Mexico to crack slingers in Miami to cocaine dealers in London – the supply chain of cocaine reaches around our world. To some, cocaine is a way of life. Drugs Inc s1e1: Cocaine, 2010
Cocaine is a powerful stimulant that produces feelings of intense pleasure and well-being. Cocaine is used in two main forms: cocaine powder is snorted ... Crack cocaine is sold in rock form and smoked. ibid.
Crack cocaine first emerged in 1984. Up until then cocaine costing $100 a gram was seen as a drug that was the preserve of the rich. Crack revolutionised the cocaine business, offering a cheap yet intensely powerful high for only $5. ibid.
The ongoing violence in Mexico has little effect on the business of drugs incorporated. Every year fifty-one billion dollars’ worth of cocaine floods across the border into the US. The Mexican cartels purchase their cocaine from the South American country of Colombia. ibid.
London: where drugs fuel a twenty-four-hour work-hard play-hard lifestyle. London is the cocaine capital of Europe. On the streets competition among dealers is fierce. A boom in home-grown marijuana has turned Britain into an exporting country. Drugs Inc s3e10: Coke Kings and Queens, 2013
There are a quarter of a million regular users of cocaine in London. ibid.
Jamaica provides a key stepping stone for the cartels ... Cocaine is trafficked here where it is exchanged for guns and cash. Drugs Inc s4e2: Jamaican Gangs, Guns & Ganja, 2013
This is a constant global demand for cocaine. Drugs Inc s4e11: The Drug Makers, 2013
In recent years cocaine consumption has fallen in recent years. Drug Inc s4e14: Best in the Business, 2013
There are a quarter of a million regular users of cocaine in London. ibid.
Puerto Rico’s ailing economy has come to rely on its black market drug trade. And cocaine abuse is so rife it’s become part of the local culture. ibid.
LA gang member Homie deals coke to some of the world’s most famous faces. Homie’s first move is to visit the stash house. Drugs Inc s6e3: Cocaine White Gold, 2014
In the USA over four million people regularly use cocaine. This powerful stimulant is worth more than gold. ibid.
Cocaine is one of the most popular drugs among the wolves of Wall Street. But another home-grown drug prescribed by doctors is taking the street by storm … Adderall is a prescription-only medication … I Adderall pill =$25; 120 pills = $3,000. Drugs Inc s7e1: The Real Wolves of Wall Street, 2015
With an estimated 150,000 users in the Big Apple, cocaine is big business. Drugs Inc s7e6: Big Apple Coke, 2015
Here the industry’s best work hard for big money. And many use coke to give them an edge. Drugs Inc s7e11: Silicon Valley High, 2015
10,000 people work in Silicon Valley’s sex industry. Sex workers have become a key part of the distribution network. ibid.
Cocaine kills 15,000 Americans each year. ibid.
Ghana, west Africa: a new link in an old trade: the global supply of cocaine. This coke’s destination? The world’s second-biggest drug market: Europe. Drugs Inc s7e14: Euro Coke, 2015
2003-2013: Coke use in Europe doubled. ibid.
They may look like soldiers but these are police officers – members of Colombia’s anti-narcotics branch. Colombia’s Drug Wars
Some 90% of all illegal cocaine consumed in the US still comes from or through Colombia. ibid.
Both sides also fund their cause by producing drugs. ibid.
One man – Pablo Escobar – made this country the biggest cocaine producer in the world. ibid.
In many towns and villages outlaws have killed or driven out the police. ibid.
Around the world coffee prices have sunk to historic lows. ibid.
The coke trade’s foot soldier is the mule. ibid.
All over the world hundreds of thousands of people are fighting a hidden war. The outcome of which affects us all. It’s the war against Drugs … A country that’s now replaced Colombia as the world’s number one coke producer. Stacey Dooley Investigates: New Drug Frontiers: Cocaine Capital of the World, BBC 2013
The coca leaves release the chemical Cocaine hydrochloride which is then skimmed from the surface of the liquid. Then more chemicals are added. ibid.
Hundreds of thousands of poor people with nothing to lose. ibid.
Cartels have been smuggling cocaine from South Africa to Western Europe through this port [Odessa]. Europe’s Dirty Drugs Secret: Stacey Dooley Investigates, BBC 2013
The contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours to control, or to cause to be controlled, all persons manufacturing, importing, selling, distributing, and exporting morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, as well as the buildings in which these persons carry such an industry or trade. 1912 Hague International Opium Convention
I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
America’s war on drugs: an eternal battle waged by agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA. Inside Cocaine Wars I: Airport Sting, National Geographic 2013
Affluent western nations have an insatiable appetite for cocaine. ibid.
Much of the cocaine trafficked through El Dorado airport ends up in America. ibid.
Drug couriers typically travel in teams of two. ibid.
Traffickers are increasingly smuggling cocaine in liquid form; it’s notoriously difficult to detect. ibid.
A sleek super-charged speedboat streaks across the Caribbean on a tropical night. A staggering two tons ... of pure Colombian cocaine is crammed in the hull. Inside Cocaine Wars II: Drug Speedboats
At least eight out of ten boats make it through. ibid.
The underworld went underwater trafficking cocaine in private submarines. Inside Cocaine Wars III: Narco Sub Mystery
An estimated $67 billion of Colombian cocaine still moves north every year. Inside Cocaine Wars IV: Drug Mules
Customs officers say they have seized over half a ton of cocaine in a shipment of coconuts from Guyana. The six men were arrested in the operation in London last night. The drugs have a street value of a hundred million pounds. BBC News 9th December 2004
A cocaine rush is the result of the excess stimulation of the brain’s pleasure centre through the neurotransmitter dopamine. When the brain gets a cocaine rush, the dopamine released is gone forever. ‘I remember I was thrilled to death from the first and last time I had a line or a smoke. I also remember a feeling of a rush when I saw a rolled-up £20 note.’ Cocaine increases the levels of Adrenaline (raising blood pressure/heart rate), Acetylcholine (muscle tremors), Serotonin (sensation of pleasure and serenity). Deadliest Drugs, short film Luana Di Pasquale, The Truth About Cocaine
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I’ve been using it for years. Tallulah Bankhead, 1903-1968
I hadn’t meant to overdo it, I had simply overestimated the quality of the cocaine I had taken. Marian Keyes, Rachael’s Holiday, 1997
For years Colombian drugs traffickers have used fast boat and human mules to smuggle cocaine north. But now a new weapon has appeared in the waters south of the US: the drugs submarine. Cocaine Submarines, National Geographic 2010