According to study authors, the average inflation-adjusted prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis in the United States decreased by 81%, 80% and 86%, respectively, between 1990 and 2007.

Cocaine with an estimated street value of £18.4m was dumped into the sea off the Cornish coast during a smuggling operation, ...

The European Union says the purity of street-level cocaine is at its highest level in a decade, as the number of seizures related to the drug also rose. According to an annual report by the EU’s ...

Topping the chart for cannabis are Novi Sad (Serbia), Amsterdam and Paris. ... The rise is attributed to an increase in the purity of the cocaine and to higher-dose ecstasy pills.

When it comes to the persistent conversations in the U.S. about the drug crisis, one conversation seems to be consistently overlooked. What substances are being used, and in what purity and potency.

The laboratory further found that the purity of cocaine has increased drastically, from an average of 26 per cent between 2017 and 2022, to an average of 48 per cent in 2024.

Cocaine purity in Europe is getting higher and higher, while the Continent becomes a hub for the production and shipment of the drug, and officials are scrambling to respond. The Belgium customs ...

In the European Union, cocaine purity in 2021 stood at between 53 and 68 percent on average, according to the European Drug Report 2021. John Coyne, head of strategic policing and law enforcement at ...

The drug now tests at 73 percent purity compared to 46 percent in 2011. French authorities seized 23.5 tonnes of cocaine in 2023, up from 4.1 tonnes in 2010, reflecting record global production ...

LONDON -- Over a ton of cocaine worth close to nearly half a billion dollars has been seized from a boat off the coast of Australia, officials have confirmed. Detectives from the Organised Crime ...