Across metropolitan Sydney the appetite for cocaine is insatiable. And what starts as a leaf in the hands of a Colombian subsistence farmer, quickly ends as a packet of fine white powder in the pocket of a Sydneysider.
This week the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research revealed a 7.7 per cent increase in the number of recorded criminal incidents for the use and, or, possession of cocaine over the past two years.The increase is possibly a result of greater policing of the drug, and the targeting of areas where it is most prevalent, like Sydney's eastern suburbs.
"My worry is that most of the current users are still only using on weekends or once a month, but if we get a large number using weekly or daily then we are going to see increases in other crime." In its most recent Illicit Drug Data Report the ACIC recorded 4623kg of cocaine had been seized nationally in 2016–17, equating to around 23 million hits, with an estimated street value of $1.7 billion.
"It’s fair to say cocaine has become less of an elitist drug than it was perceived to be two-to-five years ago. There was always this perception you would only get cocaine in certain socio-economic groups but more recent data bears out that it is no longer that way."
LucyCormack Oh naughty
LucyCormack It doesn't take long before a kilo of coca leaves, worth around $200 to a poverty-stricken farmer in Colombia, becomes a kilo of cocaine sold in Australia . Sounded wrong to me so a quick search returned 5g per Kg of leaf.
LucyCormack Drugs 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
LucyCormack Just pull over any gym junkie, covered in tattoos driving a Range Rover.
LucyCormack Coincidental that property prices are highest as well?
LucyCormack Gets passed around like dip.
LucyCormack ...one has to wonder why the escalation to hard drugs is a thing if society is all that it supposedly should be; obviously it isn't and escapism and chemically enhanced departure from reality is a necessity for many...
LucyCormack Are all foreign communities since first contact such as the Europeans, Africans, Asians, Christians, Muslims, & Jews doing it?
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