EU cocaine market worth over €10bn in 2020 - report

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An estimated 14 million people in the EU aged 15 to 65 have tried cocaine

In 2020, the highest ever amount of cocaine was seized in the EU, Norway and Turkey for the fourth consecutive year, according to the report by Europol and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.The EU faces a"growing threat from a more diverse and dynamic drug market, which relies on close collaboration between European and international criminal organisations", it added.

The market for cocaine, the EU's second most consumed drug after cannabis, was worth at least €10.5bn in 2020. Methamphetamine, the world's most widely used synthetic stimulant drug, plays a"relatively minor role in the European drug market," the report said, although the latest data suggests a"growing threat".

 

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Estimated...🤦‍♂️

Crap drug, legalize weed

No , never touched it or any other narcotics thank feck.....

Sounds low. I’m from the city and I reckon it would have to be at least one in 8 have tried it. Everyone I know has anyway. Maybe it’s lower in rural areas

When is action going to be taken against all the officers been paid off by these gangs

I draw the line at cocaine

Not a fan of it myself, I just like how it smells.

So only 2.5% of eu population have tried it? I'd say that's way low.

150 million more like 🙄

Double that I’d imagine

OK, that makes it official. There IS one born every minute.

And the rest.

The war is over, the drugs won 🤨

How many haven't?

Big wow.

What % of them work in Leinster house

The real crime is handing so much money to gangsters on a plate. Legalise it, regulate it, tax it.

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