the_ketaman
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Im also seeing many older, regular E users turning to coke, most people saying that E is "immature" and coke is a "real drug". I dont take any notice, but coke is definitely becoming more prevalent.
the_ketaman said:Im also seeing many older, regular E users turning to coke, most people saying that E is "immature" and coke is a "real drug". I dont take any notice, but coke is definitely becoming more prevalent.
tony mokbel said:All it takes is one 600 kilogram/1 tonne shipment to get through and bam coke will take off. everyone will be splitting a gram with a friend and it will take over. I've noticed more and more the really good stuff is getting out there to the public, everyone really wants it but until it comes down in price and the product is half decent then it won't reach the mainstream and rise in popularity.
[EDITrices removed. lil angel15]
tony mokbel said:It's all about price/purity/availability for any drug, and it will happen. It's just taking a bit longer because of these two issues.
The AgePolice hit drugs link to Colombia
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Steve Butcher and Loretta Wilmink
September 15, 2007
FEDERAL police and authorities in South America's cocaine capital Colombia claim to have uncovered a sophisticated scheme to run drugs to Australia via Pacific Islands.
Australian Federal Police revealed in a Melbourne court this week details of how an alleged syndicate used couriers to conceal their connections to "high-risk narcotic regions" such as South America.
Couriers linked to Colombia met colleagues in the Pacific region who collected the drugs and then returned to Australia without suspicious travel records.
In a summary tendered to Melbourne Magistrates Court, federal agent Emma Hurnall alleged the system worked by courier A landing with cocaine from South America in Tahiti or Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, via New Zealand.
Agent Hurnall said courier B would fly from Australia and meet A, who would hand the drug to B.
"The risk of detection by border security is diminished once the cocaine has successfully entered the Cook Islands (and) Pacific islands as courier B, who transports the cocaine into Australia, has no indication of travel to South America," she said.
It is suspected the syndicate has used this method at least eight times since 2005.
An eight-month operation between the AFP and Colombia's Administrative Department of Security (DAS), a wing of its National Police, culminated in July with the arrests of seven people.
The arrests were co-ordinated with that of Fabio Esneider Rodriguez Mora, 24, known as El Iguano (The Lizard), in Colombia. His uncle and alleged syndicate head Jose Arturo Quiroga, 43, was arrested in Carlton, along with Carlos Hernan Torres, 52, an alleged financier, in Dandenong on July 10.
During Torres' bail application this week, Agent Hurnall said the security department alerted federal police last November that Quiroga, his brother Gustavo and Iguano were trafficking cocaine from Colombia to Australia.
She said that in January the department, after introducing an undercover officer to Quiroga, watched and listened as he, Iguano and Torres planned, in the Colombian capital Bogota, to land monthly loads of cocaine of up to five kilograms in Australia.
A one-kilogram "test" run was planned, and in February in Bangkok, intercepted conversations between Torres and undercover police recorded him allegedly discussing money laundering — later said to be weekly amounts of $250,000 — and possible 20-kilogram importations, agent Hurnall said.
One kilogram of cocaine handed to DAS undercover police allegedly by Iguano in May in Bogota was substituted and subjected to a controlled delivery in July in Melbourne, when federal police swooped.
Torres denied knowledge of cocaine importations.
Prosecutor Susan Armour said a number of countries were involved in the investigation.
Magistrate Gerard Lethbridge refused Torres, of Endeavour Hills, bail. Torres will appear again in December
Splatt said:Should be a reason for the cost to come down then and stop jumping on it so much.
psytaco said:The only coke i have tried was in thailand, so i can't really judge aussie coke.
on the rock is more pure argument. i do not believe that. Some of the coke i had was in rock from and the white, powdered stuff that I had was a lot better, much cleaner and more potent high. i don't think there are rules of thumb for rock v.s powder in terms of purity. if its rock, it may not have been too pure when pressed or it may have. results may vary