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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]
Although cocaine use had not significantly changed over the six years prior to 1999, the number of first-time users went up from 574,000 in 1991, to 934,000 in 1998 – an increase of 63%. While these numbers indicated that cocaine is still widely present in the United States, its use was significantly less prevalent than during the early 1980s.
Cocaine is a highly trafficked drug. In 2017 the value of the global market for illicit cocaine was estimated at between $94 and $143 billion. [120] In 2022, illicit sales in Europe were estimated at $11.1 billion. [121] In 2020, almost 2,000 tons of cocaine were produced for distribution through illicit markets. [122]
Cocaine demand and supply are booming worldwide and methamphetamine trafficking is expanding beyond established markets, including in Afghanistan where the drug is now being produced, a United ...
In his new book 'The Last Kilo," T.J. English lays out how a group of Cuban immigrants called Los Muchachos brought the 1980's cocaine craze to the U.S.
Cocaine (from French cocaïne, from Spanish coca, ultimately from Quechua kúka) [13] is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system stimulant.As an extract, it is mainly used recreationally and often illegally for its euphoric and rewarding effects.
In 2019, more than 41 million adults aged 18 and older reported having used cocaine at some point in their lives according to a 2020 report by SAMHSA. In 2019, more than 41 million adults aged 18 ...
Cocaine is a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act. It remains legal for medical use however the recreational use of cocaine and the drug possession is a severe felony at federal level and the sales and dispensaries of cocaine are still illegal but could be legalized in a future. Venezuela: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal