European cocaine flow flourishing

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about cocaine in Europe. This follows this post about  abondoned children.  For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

World News and Trends: European cocaine flow flourishing



article by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes





While U.S. cocaine use leveled off in recent years, the flow of the drug into Europe has nearly doubled—to 220 tons annually—in the last five years.



Although the United Stated remains the undisputed leading market for the drug, consuming an estimated 330 tons yearly, the increased flow into Europe worries European governments and law-enforcement agencies.



Europol, the European Union's police agency, estimates that 35 percent of Colombia's cocaine production found its way to EU nations, primarily through the Netherlands and Spain. In 1999 EU member nations seized 43 tons of the drug, an increase of 37 percent over the previous year. (Source: The New York Times .)

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