Deformed_Neuron
Ex-Bluelighter
Awesome information Phase_Dancer.
As I understand it though... most Coke that hits Australian shores these days, is produced, refined and then, packaged in Indonesia. Obviously, the Indonesians aren't as "resourceful", as what the Columbians are... plus, I'd imagine that they are alot more "newer" to the Coke scene. So... yeah, there's alot of different factors to take into consideration there.
Also, I'm also assuming here, that the Indonesians don't have the means for mass-scale production, so this may be affecting Australia's flow of the illicit Cocaine market.
Most Cocaine you will stumble across in Australia, I could pretty much assure you it won't be coming from Columbian sources, say... unless one of OUR major crime syndicates was to somehow get a reliable connection in another country in the Southern hemisphere, and maybe this source was getting alot of Columbian "product"... from at least a "3-way-link" drug connection.
Cocaine, unlike Heroin... is alot more harder to come across on the street as well, so this may also be affecting the whole availability aspect to it.
You only have to walk down "known drug spots" scattered throughout Melbourne, Sydney, or... Goldcoast cities/towns to see how much more of a "necessity" Heroin is to the whole drug-trade. We haven't really had a coke/crack epidemic in Australia as of yet... so obviously Coke is not as much of an investment oppurtunity as what, say... something like Heroin is.
Also, as mentioned somewhere above. The amount of hands your "product" has most probably gone through, to get into yours (end-line), would be quite a few. And, just like all "powdery substances", this gives way to a whole world of impurities, nasty cutting processes and other "amateurish" styles to making money.
So, in the end... Coke just isn't as plentiful as what it is in countries like the U.K. or especially the States.
As I understand it though... most Coke that hits Australian shores these days, is produced, refined and then, packaged in Indonesia. Obviously, the Indonesians aren't as "resourceful", as what the Columbians are... plus, I'd imagine that they are alot more "newer" to the Coke scene. So... yeah, there's alot of different factors to take into consideration there.
Also, I'm also assuming here, that the Indonesians don't have the means for mass-scale production, so this may be affecting Australia's flow of the illicit Cocaine market.
Most Cocaine you will stumble across in Australia, I could pretty much assure you it won't be coming from Columbian sources, say... unless one of OUR major crime syndicates was to somehow get a reliable connection in another country in the Southern hemisphere, and maybe this source was getting alot of Columbian "product"... from at least a "3-way-link" drug connection.
Cocaine, unlike Heroin... is alot more harder to come across on the street as well, so this may also be affecting the whole availability aspect to it.
You only have to walk down "known drug spots" scattered throughout Melbourne, Sydney, or... Goldcoast cities/towns to see how much more of a "necessity" Heroin is to the whole drug-trade. We haven't really had a coke/crack epidemic in Australia as of yet... so obviously Coke is not as much of an investment oppurtunity as what, say... something like Heroin is.
Also, as mentioned somewhere above. The amount of hands your "product" has most probably gone through, to get into yours (end-line), would be quite a few. And, just like all "powdery substances", this gives way to a whole world of impurities, nasty cutting processes and other "amateurish" styles to making money.
So, in the end... Coke just isn't as plentiful as what it is in countries like the U.K. or especially the States.