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In jurisdictions where legislation restricts or prohibits the sale of certain popular drugs, it is common for an illegal drugs trade to develop. For some drugs, large-scale drug production is not usually located in developed countries where those drugs are illegal — rather, those drugs are often manufactured or harvested in developing nations where corruption and instability allows producers to operate with minimal interference from law enforcement agencies. Other "soft" drugs are often produced locally. Regardless of the type, high demand for illegal drugs on the black market leads to the formation of complex illegitimate production, smuggling, and distribution networks that span national borders and generate billions of dollars of revenue. Photo of lollipops containing heroin. ...
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is an alkaloid opioid. ...
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A drug is any substance that can be used to modify a chemical process or processes in the body, for example to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, enhance a performance or ability, or to alter states of mind. ...
A developed country is a country that has achieved (currently or historically) a high degree of industrialization, and which enjoys the higher standards of living which wealth and technology make possible. ...
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The black market is the sector of economic activity involving illegal economic dealings, typically the buying and selling of merchandise illegally. ...
Illegal supply to consumers is generally via criminal drug dealers who purchase drugs in bulk or produce their own. Such dealers are stereotypically associated with organized crime syndicates, though in reality they often work freelance and bear no connection to organized criminal groups. The motivations for participation in the drug trade vary greatly depending on the specific drug. Dealers of "soft" drugs such as marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms often cite their motivations as the philanthropic desire to facilitate their recreational use, and tend to view drug prohibition laws as immoral restraints of personal civil liberties. In contrast, dealers of "hard" drugs such as heroin and cocaine which have a more restricted supply are often motivated by the incredible profits which can be made from trafficking in these drugs. Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ...
Cannabis is a plant also known as Cannabis sativa, hemp, or marijuana. ...
Magic mushrooms are also known as sacred mushrooms, psychedelic mushrooms, and, more generally, hallucinogenic mushrooms. ...
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Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is an alkaloid opioid. ...
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...
Soft drugs
"Soft" drugs are generally drugs that can be harvested and consumed in a potent form with little or no processing, and which are perceived to have less potential for causing physical or mental health damage to the user than "hard" drugs. Marijuana (cannabis) is the most commonly cited soft drug; psychedelic mushrooms also fall under this category. Opium is usually not characterized as a soft drug because of its high potential for addiction. Many jurisdictions, particularly Canada and many European states, have chosen to place a low law enforcement priority on the prosecution of cases involving personal-use quantities of soft drugs, rendering them quasi-legal (though still technically proscribed). They are sometimes also allowed for medical purposes with a doctor's prescription (see medical marijuana). In other jurisdictions, notably in most of the United States, soft drugs remain strictly illegal, and a black market has developed to supply them. Cannabis is a plant also known as Cannabis sativa, hemp, or marijuana. ...
Cannabis leaves are less potent than the flowers. ...
Magic mushrooms are also known as sacred mushrooms, psychedelic mushrooms, and, more generally, hallucinogenic mushrooms. ...
Opium is a narcotic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy . ...
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Many in the drugs field do not find the hard/soft drug distinction useful, acknowledging that it is the drug using behaviors that are the most important determinate of harm, not the choice of drug: all drugs can be harmful if misused. A more useful distinction ranks drugs according to their toxicity and addictive potential. Alcohol and tobacco rank high on this scale but are generally categorized as 'soft' due to their legal status, rather than harm potential, even though thousands of people die from alcohol and cigarettes every year.
Cannabis trade The cannabis trade has several driving factors. As cannabis use is primarily recreational, some growers and dealers cite a desire to facilitate usage as their primary motivation. However, massive profits can also be made in the cannabis trade, and a great deal of cannabis trafficking is undoubtedly solely for this purpose. In jurisdictions where cannabis is quasi-legal (e.g. most of western Europe, Canada, and the Pacific coast of the United States), relaxed enforcement combined with a fiercely competitive supply results in lower market prices. By contrast, illegal market prices are much higher in areas where marijuana is still strictly proscribed (e.g. the eastern United States). In North Dakota (U.S.) marijuana is legally grown for its industrial hemp uses, but is illegal there as a drug. Recreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear. ...
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Wholesaling The wholesale market for cannabis exists on a variety of levels. Typically a "wholesale" purchase would consist of anything more than a quarter-pound (115g). However, legal definitions of "possession with intent to distribute" vary considerably between jurisdictions — in some places, much smaller quantities of marijuana or simply having marijuana in more than one container may constitute legal intent to distribute, with concomitantly increased legal penalties.
Due to the existence of different strains and different degrees of potency, along with varying degrees anti-drug law enforcement in different jurisdictions, the wholesale price of marijuana varies widely. For example, it is not unheard for low-potency Mexican "schwag" to be purchased in multi-ton quantities. These type of purchases are executed by large poly-drug criminal organizations that work with other national and international crime cartels. It is not uncommon for these crime cartels to employ a professional smuggler to assist with packing and shipping the contraband. The importers of these drugs tend to be associated with violence and often import other drugs such as cocaine and heroin. In the United States, the Mexico-US border is usually the source for these large wholesale transactions. The term swag may refer to one of the following: A wreath or garland suspended from two points, also fabric hung from two points A subsidence in the ground Goods taken by a thief or burglar In Australia and NZ, a swag is the traditional roll of belongings carried by...
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Higher grade marijuana tends to trade on a much smaller scale due to the nature of the product — higher potency means that less must be smoked to achieve the desired effects. Where a pound of schwag can sell for $500 wholesale, high grade marijuana can fetch up to $4,400 per pound. High grade marijuana typically originates in small scale domestic indoor and outdoor growing operations. High grade marijuana is also imported into the United States on a small scale from Canada or in some rare instances from the tropics and Mexico. Of course, some zealous traffickers will bring multi-ton shipments of this product over the border as well. Many of these large traffickers are also associated with other much harder drugs, violence, and gangs. The typical indoor grower usually tends to be an otherwise law-abiding citizen who would not consider violence or strong arm tactics in marijuana dealing.
In the majority of cases, a local grower will give cannabis to "distributors". Each distributor will take between a quarter ounce and one pound and then divide it up and sell it to street-sellers. Because it costs very little to grow cannabis, and because the distributors are generally personal friends of the grower, any money made from this is almost 100% profit. Distributors can afford to distribute to sellers for as little as a dollar a gram, but typically charge half street value. The grower takes the most sizable cut of the money, but the particulars and percentages vary depending on local market conditions, the individuals involved, and whatever agreement they come to. It is not unheard of for the grower to keep all the monetary profit and pay his distributors in cannabis (although in this case the assumption often exists that the distributors are keeping a small amount of the money for themselves without the grower's direct knowledge).
Law enforcement attention to these "lesser" wholesaling transactions is typically reduced; most law enforcement concern is over large-scale wholesaling and cartels.
Street selling Selling can be somewhat profitable. A typical dealer will purchase an ounce (28 grams) or more and repackage it into 1 gram sacks called "dime bags" or "ten sacks" for resale at $10 each, "20 bags" or "twins" or containing 2 grams, costing $20 dollars per bag, or $40 bags, or "eights" containing 4 grams. $80 bags, or quater ounces, are less common, as are $5 bags ("5 nugs"), but both are usually available. Usually, "prefered costomers", almost always long-standing friends of dealers, can buy the product at cost, or half street-price ($5 per gram in the above example). (Note that $10 per gram was the standard street price in relatively high-availability areas during the late 1990's, though this could vary wildly depending on proximity to a major city; from as much as $20 per gram in rural areas to as little as $5 per gram in major metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles or Seattle. $10 per gram is therefore a rough average. Prices in your area may differ.)
[Edit: the above paragraph is highly speculative and very inacurate. Most "Street Dealers" use very accurate digital scales(0.1 g graduation) which are sold at head shops, The price of canabis varies according to region, but a "Dime bag" is 2 grams, or less commonly it would be $10 worth of higher grade bud. Standard slang for $5 bags is a "Nic"(pronounced "Nick"). Few Dealers actually give even personal friends drugs at cost. It should be noted that the prices for low and high grade cannabis are very different.below I will list average prices in my region. (Edit: I (another user) have added the average prices in london, england. i have no idea what "schwag" is, so i have assumed it is straight weed - but as i dont know the prices i won't say - , and the high grade is basically skunk, speed weed etc).
Schwag----------------
1 gram--------- $5
2 grams-------- $10
1/4 ounce------ $25 (7 grams}
1/2 ounce (14 grams)----- $35-$45
1 ounce-------- $60-$75
2 ounces------- $100-150
Higher grade "kind" bud, Krypto, B.C. bud, etc----------------------
1 gram--------- $15
half-eigth (1.7 grams)---- $25
eigth---------- $50 (3.5 grams)
Quarter-------- $100(rarely sold for less) (7 grams)
Half ounce----- $150-$180
Ounce---------- $280-$350
LONDON PRICES:
1/16 onz.-------£10 (aka tens, tensdraw, ten pound bag)
1/8 onz.--------£15-20 (aka eighth, score)
1/4 onz.--------£25-40 (aka "Q")
1/2 onz.--------£45-70 (aka half, halfy, half O)
1 onz.----------£80-120 (aka ounce)
1/4 lb.---------£250-400 (aka "QB", quarter brick)
1/2 lb.---------£~700 (aka half B)
1 lb.-----------£~1250 (aka brick)
NOTE: the above list should be removed later, I am simply posting it as a counterpoint to the previous authors price list. Prices fluctuate far to much in regards to location, therefore having a price list is irrational, and misleading.
Unscrupulous dealers may resort to a variety of methods to increase their profits:
- Overcharging inexperienced buyers
- Advertising a higher amount of "bud" than is actually contained in each sack
- Packaging the cannabis "bud" in with "shake" (stems and leaves) to increase the weight of each package
Such mark-ups generally only work in low-availability areas or on those who are inexperienced at purchasing cannabis. More "seasoned" buyers would never, for instance, pay $20 for a single gram of cannabis. Local market conditions vary significantly with local supply and demand, and with the degree of local law enforcement attention to cannabis trafficking.
The act of ripping off a prospective buyer is sometimes known as 'skanking'; this usually happens to younger members of the community as they are usually less experienced and more prone to believe hype.
Shipping Certain strains of cannabis that are unique to a particular area, such as Maui-wowie, hula-bud, Thai-sticks, yellow cab, or Alaskan thunderfuck may be shipped great distances due to popularity and demand.
On the United States' Pacific coast, a cannabis "super highway" of sorts exists, along which most exotic strains are traded, anti-cannabis laws are relatively relaxed or aren't as actively enforced, and large numbers of growers reside.
At the northernmost end of this "highway" is Alaska, where northern lights and Alaskan thunderfuck are produced. Further south is British Columbia, home of the famous BC bud, which comes in a wide array of qualities and forms, the most desired of which is the hydrochronic, or hydroponically grown chronic. South of British Columbia is Washington, which is home of the annual Hempfest, has an extremely high number of local growers, and imports massive quantities of hydrochronic from British Columbia, Maui-wowie and hula-bud from Hawaii, Thai-sticks from Thailand, yellow cab from Idaho, northern lights and thunderfuck from Alaska via British Columbia, and red-hair bud from southern Mexico via California and Oregon. Washington is also famous for its chemo-bud grown at the University of Washington, including the elusive (and possibly non-existent) G-13. South of Washington is California, where consumption of Cannabis is likely as high (per-capita) as in Washington, and is thus a major player in cannabis trade. At the southernmost end is Mexico, which, although known mainly for its low-quality "dirt weed", facilitates the trade of highly potent strains from southern Mexico and Central America into the United States. State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st) - Land 1,481,347 km² - Water 236,507 km² (13. ...
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Hempfest, officially The Seattle Hempfest, is an annual event in Seattle, Washington (U.S.), the countrys largest annual gathering demanding legalization of marijuana. ...
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Along this "super highway", major cities such as Vancouver, BC, Tacoma, San Francisco, and Los Angeles offer the lowest prices for the greatest quantities of cannabis, whilst Tacoma, San Francisco, and L.A. offer the greatest variety of exotic strains. These exotic strains become increasingly rare and expensive when one moves into the smaller surrounding towns. Away from the west coast as a whole, the cost of even low-quality or "schwag" cannabis may be double what one would pay for good-quality cannabis in, for instance, Washington. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...
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High-demand strains Some greatly sought-after (and often more expensive) strains of Cannabis include Alaskan thunderfuck, BC bud, chemo-bud, G-13, hula-bud, hydrochronic, Maui-wowie, mystic creeper, northern lights, popcorn bud, purple kush, Thai-sticks, white rhino, Kind Bud and yellow cab. BC Bud is a generic term for several varieties of cannabis grown in the Canadian province of British Columbia. ...
((cleanup)) G-13 is a strain of marijuana, supposedly a mutant variety cultivated by the American government, referred to in the movie American Beauty by the neighbor of Kevin Spaceys character. ...
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Trade jargon - Death Weed refers to extremely potent Cannabis.
- The Kill also refers to highly potent Cannabis, though not necessarily as potent as "The Death Weed".
- Chronic refers to Cannabis which is highly potent but not unusually so. In other words, the highest quality one can find on a semi-regular basis for roughly the same cost as mid-grade Cannabis. Chronic can also be Cannabis with a little bit of Cocaine on top. This causes the same effects as Crack but on a much lighter scale.
- Bud simply refers to the buds of the Cannabis plant. Bud may be high or low quality depending on several factors, not the least of which is sex (female buds are far, far more potent than the weaker and less tasty male buds).
- Shake refers to the leaves of the Cannabis plant, which are impotent. "Shake" also refers to small pieces of cannabis that have flaked off of buds ("bud shake" is just as potent as buds, contrary to popular belief).
- Schwag refers to low-quality bud. Often dry and brownish in color rather than lush and green (however, looks can be deceiving).
- Dirt Weed often refers to brown, withered looking buds which are usually impotent, although potent "dirt weed" is not completely unheard of. This term is seldom used synonymously with "outdoor" (see below).
- Indoor is Cannabis grown indoors. Sometimes pronounced "indoe", sounding much like the Latin endo, which has a similar meaning when spoken as "indoe-weed". This term generally does not include hydroponically grown Cannabis, which is in a class of its own. Indoor grown Cannabis is almost always better than outdoor because of the protection it gets inside.
- Outdoor, sometimes pronounced "outdoe" or instead called exo (to contrast with endo), is Cannabis that has been grown outdoors.
[Edit, slang for weed is not nearly this complex, also, potheads like to talk about nice weed, if they have good weed, we may say it's chronic or dank, but there is no regulated ranks of weed. "this is the kill, but not quite death weed" -- Nobody would ever say that, weed is weed, potheads just like to smoke, it's not that complex. ...
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BUD refers to: big ugly dish, a colloquial name for a satellite dish used to receive satellite television signals on the C band. ...
The word shake refers to: Shake (software) Milkshake Shake (roof) Shake (cannabis) Shake (time) A Shake on a brass instrument, especially the Trumpet, implies quickly slurring to a note above the written note. ...
The term swag may refer to one of the following: A wreath or garland suspended from two points, also fabric hung from two points A subsidence in the ground Goods taken by a thief or burglar In Australia and NZ, a swag is the traditional roll of belongings carried by...
Cannabis is a plant which is consumed by humans as a psychoactive drug. ...
The word endo can have several meanings: In cycling, an endo is a trick that involves the rider lifting the rear wheel into the air while the front wheel stays grounded. ...
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Mushroom trade The trade of "magic mushrooms" is often far smaller than that of other drugs due to its wide availability of picking at local cow pastures.
Prices Generally speaking, an eighth(one eighth of an ounce) can be obtained for about $25, a quarter ounce around $45, a half ounce around $80, an ounce around $140. Prices will generally decrease with larger purchases.[edit, prices fluctuate according to location so much that this part should be removed.
Growing Personal growing of mushrooms is extremely easy, thanks to the legal status of spores and mycelium (varies in different countries and states). One can purchase kits through the mail or internet that include everything one needs for personal growing. These grow kits are often used by amateurs, can be easily hidden in a closet or under a bed, and produce up to a half pound of dried product. In most cases, most mushrooms that come to your town are grown in small scale production.
[edit, nearly all kits sold over the internet are far to costly and produce far to little to make them a viable source of income. Kits are rarely used as everything needed can be purcased at gardening supply stores(wal mart, lowes) and spores can be ordered from a number of online vendors. There are numerous websites devoted to the hoby(eg.www.shroomery.org, www.mycotopia.net) where amature growers swap techniques(these are known as "teks" the most common is the "pf-Tek")
Tobacco trade The illegal trade of tobacco is motivated primarily by increasingly heavy taxation, and to a lesser extent by smoking bans in public places. When tobacco products such as name-brand cigarettes are traded illegally, the cost is as little as one third that of retail price due to the lack of taxes being piled on as the product is sold from manufacturer to buyer to retailer. Meanwhile, the sale of tobacco, legal or not, seems motivated almost entirely by addiction, with social/recreational motives being the cause of initial consumption.
Hard drugs The term 'hard drugs' is usually used to refer to heroin and cocaine, the concentrated pharmaceutical preparations of naturally occurring opium poppies and coca plant respectively. These drugs are associated with the highly visible and chaotic patterns of use, often associated with criminality, that shape the stereotypical media portrayal of the 'junkie' or 'crack head'. These drugs, when in their natural forms (opium - smoked or consumed as tea, and coca leaf - chewed or consumed as tea), are rarely if ever associated with such behavior. Both heroin and cocaine are also used extensively in the medical field as powerful pain killers.
[Edit: heroin is a scedule 1 drug and has no medical use within the United States. Cocaine is used only as a local anaestetic in eye and nasal surgery.]
illegal supply of these so called hard drugs is driven mainly by the economics of drug prohibition, with huge profit margins available due to the collision of high demand for the drugs with harsh laws that attempt to prohibit their supply and use. The vast profits on offer mean that the trade is run by highly organized and often violent criminal organizations. Hard drugs are drugs that lead to physical addiction, opposed to soft drugs, such as marijuana and hashish, that are only psychologically addictive. ...
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LSD trade LSD (also known as Acid) is a highly potent hallucinogen which is synthesized artificially. The availability of LSD in America dropped sharply circa 2000, when two distributors alleged by the government to have been manufacturing 95% of all LSD available in America were captured (see LSD). Unlike other drugs, the production of LSD is very complicated and involves obtaining highly controlled precursors. It is said that someone with a PhD in organic chemestry could produce LSD, but anybody with less education and experience would have a very difficult time synthesizing a decent product. Historicaly, LSD was distributed not for profit, but because those who made and distributed it truely beleived that the psychedelic experience could do good for humanity, that it expanded the mind and could bring understanding and love. Most of the main distributors traveled with the Grateful Dead until Jerry Garcia's death. D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. ...
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D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. ...
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Cocaine trade Because of the extensive processing it undergoes during preparation and its highly addictive nature, cocaine is generally treated as a hard drug, with severe penalties for possession and trafficking. Demand remains high, and consequently black market cocaine is quite expensive. Unprocessed cocaine, such as coca leaves is occasionally bought and sold, but this is exceedingly rare as it is much easier and more profitable to conceal and smuggle the concentrated processed form. Therefore, powdered cocaine (its usual form) is described here. Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...
Most cocaine is smuggled in large quantities in trucks, boats, or small airplanes. Smaller gangs will often send out a mule, often a young woman, with kilos of cocaine strapped to her waist or legs or hidden in her bags. If she gets through without being caught, the gangs will reap most of the profits. If she is caught however, gangs will sever all links and she will usually stand trial for trafficking by herself. The driver of a car transporter truck prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation). ...
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Colombia still produces around 75% of the world's cocaine.
Harvesting & processing Cocaine comes from the coca plant. The leaves are removed from the plants and dried, then crushed into a paste, commonly using cement mix (containing sodium carbonate), lime and water. This then allows extraction of the cocaine alkaloid into kerosene. The resulting water immiscible solvent (kerosene) acts to extract water insoluble cocaine alkaloids from the mixture. The plant leaves are agitated by stomping on them or, more recently, by using an agitation machine. The Cocaine alkaloids and kerosene will separate from the water and leaves, and then need to be strained.
The alkaloids must be extracted from the kerosene by adding a dilute hydrochloric or sulfuric acid mix then filtered again. Potassium permanganate is added then the mix is let stand for 4-6 hours. The paste is further filtered and ammonia added. A precipitate will be formed. This is referred to as Cocaine Base.
The base must be dried and converted to cocaine hydrochloride (HCl) by soaking it in Acetone and filtering it. Added diluted Hydrochloric acid or Ether (cutting) causes a precipitate to form which is then dried under heat lamps, resulting in pure cocaine hydrochloride.
Wholesaling Organized criminal gangs operating on a large scale dominate the cocaine trade. Most cocaine is grown and processed in South America, particularly in Colombia and Peru, and smuggled into the United States and Europe, where it is sold at huge markups. Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ...
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Crack Cocaine trade Crack cocaine is usually more prevalent in lower income communities which are often predominantly Hispanic or Black. This is largely due to the way a drug is marketed rather than its specific effects. Crack cocaine is often sold in $5 hits, a piece of which will fit into a small glass vial. The small amounts and low price make crack an easy sell in crowded poor neighborhoods.
It is a common misconception that crack cocaine is a more dangerous and more addictive drug than normal powder cocaine. In actuality it is the exact same drug but in a different chemical form. Powder cocaine does not burn well and cannot be easily smoked, whereas crack cocaine cannot easily be absorbed through the mucus membranes in the nose. This has to do with the structure of the molecule and whether a hydrochloride bond is present or not. In the cases where it is not present the cocaine is known as under slang as freebase. Most every drug can exist in either a salt form (as in with a hydrochloride bond) or a freebase form, but only freebase cocaine takes the slang name. Freebase refers to the standalone basic form of an alkaloid, as opposed to its salt form. ...
True freebase cocaine is difficult to manufacture and involves explosive chemicals to process. Before the 1980s it was the only form of “rock” cocaine. Crack in contrast is safely and easily made and is manufactured from imported powdered cocaine usually in small batches by urban dealers. Using a simple process involving baking soda and water the dealers can make a rough “freebase” of the cocaine. Because baking soda is added in the process crack cocaine is actually less pure – whereas a true freebase is more pure.
Crack cocaine is associated with street gangs that distribute in lower class areas, the money earned from its sale is used for, but not limited to, the following: drug-wars, illegal firearms, and turf-wars.
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Heroin and opium trade Opium is the dried latex resin of the opium poppy. Most of the world's illegal opium has been grown in Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle region of southeast Asia for a long time. Although, in recent years, a growing amount comes from Latin America, particularly from Mexico and Colombia (in this latter country it has displaced to some extent cocaine trade because it is easier to refine into a marketable product, heroin), and production has also taken root in the Caucasus Mountains. Opium is a narcotic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy . ...
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Legal production of opium the for the variety of opiate-based products used by the medical market is more than 50% of global opium production and takes place mostly in Tasmania and India. In these countries, it is used strictly natural form, which contains a number of active ingredients. It is smoked, eaten, or prepared as a drink to produce the opiate effects. It is also widely used as local medicine in its native countries; the resin requires minimal processing involving boiling in water, filtering, and drying. Illicit trade in opium is relatively rare, since major smuggling organizations prefer to further refine opium into heroin. A given quantity of heroin is worth much more than an equivalent amount of opium; therefore trade in opium is comparatively rare, since heroin is much more profitable. Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ...
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Newark, nicknamed The Brick City, is the largest city in New Jersey and the county seat of urban Essex County. ...
State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (D)Acting Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th) - Land 19,231 km² - Water 3,378 km² (14. ...
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Methamphetamine trade Since the early 1970s, outlaw motorcycle clubs such as the Hells Angels and the Pagans and the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang have been active in the manufacture of crystal methamphetamine in North America. However, in the last two decades they have been joined by large scale operations based in Mexico and Asia, and small scale meth labs which have popped up throughout North America, which often create environmental hazards for those living near them due to the amount of toxic chemicals used in methamphetamine production. The proliferation of small scale meth labs began in California, then spread to the rest of the Western United States, and from there spreading to the midwest and now throughout almost all of the country, paralleling the epidemic in meth abuse which currently is taking place in all sections of the United States except for the Northeast, as well as spreading into most of Canada. A wide variety of groups are involved in the distribution of methamphetamine, from the aforementioned prison gangs and motorcycle gangs to street gangs, traditional organized crime operations, and impromptu small level networks made up of users. The government of North Korea is said to promote the manufacture of crystal meth, and allegedly plays a role in distribution networks throughout Asia as well as those in Australia and even in North America. Regardless, meth trafficking is not exclusively dominated by cartels along the lines of Colombia's cocaine cartels or Pakistan's heroin cartels. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...
Hells Angels logo (Smithsonian Institution) The Hells Angels (without an apostrophe), was formed in 1948 in Fontana, California (where the local chapter remains active), taking the name of the movie Hells Angels based on the Royal Flying Corps directed by Howard Hughes. ...
Paganism is a catch-all term which has come to bundle together (by extension from its original classical meaning of a pre-Christian religion) a very broad set of not necessarily compatible religious beliefs and practices that are usually, but not necessarily, characterized by polytheism and, less commonly, animism. ...
The Aryan Brotherhood, or AB, is a predominantly Caucasian, or White gang that originated in Californias San Quentin State Prison in 1967. ...
A prison gang is an unofficial term used to denote any type of gang activity in prisons and correctional facilities. ...
Methamphetamine is a synthetic stimulant drug which induces a strong feeling of euphoria and is highly addictive. ...
World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...
World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia, defined by subtracting Europe from Eurasia. ...
World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...
State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...
The Western United States, also referred to as the American West or simply The West, traditionally refers to the region constituting the westernmost states of the United States (see geographical terminology section for further discussion of these terms). ...
The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. ...
Northeast is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. ...
Methamphetamine is a synthetic stimulant drug which induces a strong feeling of euphoria and is highly psychologically addictive. ...
World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...
A cartel is a group of producers whose goal it is to fix prices, to limit supply and to limit competition. ...
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Methamphetamine is a synthetic stimulant drug which induces a strong feeling of euphoria and is highly psychologically addictive. ...
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Because of physical dependence, the high cost of illegal addictive drugs is one of the major causes of crime. Some estimates placed the value of the global trade in illegal drugs at around four hundred billion U.S. dollars in the year 2000.
Major consumer countries include the United States and European nations, although consumption is world-wide. World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...
As with legal commerce, the illegal drug trade is multi-layered and often multi-national, with layers of manufacturers, processors, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. Financing is also important, generally involving money laundering to hide the source of the illegal profits. All of these are made more complex by their illegality, but the normal laws of economics still apply, with the efforts of law enforcement regarded by the drug trade as an extra business cost. Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures. ...
A CPU The exact term processor is a sub-system of a data processing system which processes received information after it has been encoded into data by the input sub-system. ...
Distribution is one of the four aspects of marketing. ...
In commerce, a wholesaler buys goods in large quantities from their manufacturers or importers, and then sells smaller quantities to retailers, who in turn sell to the general public. ...
In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ...
Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ...
Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ...
The drug trade is a very fragmented industry with the most popular product, cannabis, being grown locally by many individuals with little collaboration. Similarly, drugs like LSD with very low profit margins are sold more for philanthropic reasons than for profit. The main organized drug cartels deal with cocaine, heroin, and MDMA, and it is these that are the primary focus of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Largely manufactured drugs also induce the foundation of satellite organizations that supply some of the needed chemical precursors. In places where alcohol is illegal, such as Saudi Arabia, it may also be the subject of illegal trading. In the United States during Prohibition, trade in alcohol was dominated by the Cosa Nostra. Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ...
D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. ...
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...
Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is an alkaloid opioid. ...
ecstasy and religious ecstasy MDMA, most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being. ...
Since 1973, the DEA has enforced the drug laws in the United States. ...
In general usage, alcohol (from Arabic al-khwl الكØول, or al-ghawl الغول) refers almost always to ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, and often to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage). ...
Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ...
La Cosa Nostra is the name by which members of the Mafia in the United States refer to the organization. ...
Some prescription drugs are also available by illegal means, eliminating the need to manufacture and process the drugs. Prescription opiates for example, are sometimes much stronger than heroin found on the street. They are sold primarily via stolen or unscrupulous prescriptions sold by illegitimate medical practices and occasionally from Internet sale. However, it is much easier to control traffic in prescription drugs than in illegal drugs because the source can often be readily found and neutralized. A prescription drug is a medication that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. ...
The term opiate refers to the alkaloids found in opium, an extract from the seed pods of the opium poppy (). It has also traditionally referred to natural and semi-synthetic derivatives of morphine. ...
Legal Drugs like tobacco can be the subject of smuggling and illegal trading if the taxes are high enough to make it profitable. A drug is any substance that can be used to modify a chemical process or processes in the body, for example to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, enhance a performance or ability, or to alter states of mind. ...
Species N. glauca N. longiflora N. rustica N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of 2002 August 28 Tobacco () is a broad-leafed plant of the nightshade family, indigenous to North and South America, whose dried and cured leaves are often smoked (see tobacco smoking) in the form of...
These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the DEA. Smuggling is illegal transport, in particular across a border. ...
Because disputes cannot be resolved through legal means, participants at every level of the illegal drugs industry are liable to compete with one another through violence. Some of the largest and most violent drug trafficking organizations are known as drug cartels. For this (and other reasons, namely the inability for governments to control, regulate and tax distribution), many have argued that the illegality of popular drugs worsens the problems around these substances. Violence is the causing of, or acting with the intent to cause, injury to people or animals. ...
A cartel is a group of producers whose goal it is to fix prices, to limit supply and to limit competition. ...
The most well known recent groups were the Cali and Medellín cartels in Colombia and the Juarez, Tijuana and Tamaulipas cartels in Mexico. The Cartel De Cali is a drug cartel based in the south part of Colombia, around the city of Cali. ...
The MedellÃn Cartel was a well-organized but very loose network of drug smugglers originating in the city of MedellÃn in Colombia and operating through the 1970s and 1980s. ...
The Tijuana cartel is a Mexican drug cartel from Tijuana. ...
Manufacturing and processing Illegal drugs can be broken down into two major classes: those extracted from plants, and those synthesized from chemical precursors. For the first class, such as marijuana and cocaine, the growing area is important, and substantial farming is needed for mass production. For the second class, such as MDMA and methamphetamine, access to chemical precursors is most important. Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ...
Methamphetamine is a synthetic stimulant drug which induces a strong feeling of euphoria and is highly addictive. ...
Major drug farming and manufacturing countries include
Synthetic illegal drugs can either be manufactured in the country of consumption, or abroad. Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...
The Golden Triangle can refer to: The Golden Triangle is one of Asia’s two main illicit opium-producing (opium) areas. ...
Opium is a narcotic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy . ...
Methamphetamine is a synthetic stimulant drug which induces a strong feeling of euphoria and is highly addictive. ...
For the most part, the manufacturing of botanically-based drugs consists of several layers which may be isolated or conglomerated: growing and harvesting, initial botanical processing, chemical processing, and final processing.
The initial botanical processing prepares the plant for chemical processing, by cutting, drying if applicable, separating parts with a low concentration, and etc. The chemical processing extracts the drug, and the final processing sizes it, provides assurance of quality, packages it, and may convert it to another form (such as crack from cocaine).
Of course, there is a lot of transportation that goes into it, as well. The botanical extracts must be conveyed to the...
Distribution and wholesaling There are two primary means of distribution: a hierarchy and a hub-and-spoke layout. A hierarchical arrangement includes the manufacturer who uses his own men to smuggle, wholesale and store, and distribute the narcotics. A hub-and-spoke layout takes advantage of local gangs and other localized criminal organizations. The cartel is at the center, with satellite organizations that may provide certain services to the manufacturer, and then there is a plurality of distinct groups, each with its own chain.
Smuggling is typically accomplished via small boats and yachts, air vehicles, and by gangs paid with a chunk of the merchandise.
Wholesalers routinely accept the materials from the smugglers (often more than one and of varying types), cut it, and sell it to the distribution chain or chains. For the most part, wholesalers are not individual people. It is typically an expansional endeavor by already-established rogue enterprises, especially Mafias and, rarely, gangs. The more experienced instances may re-manufacture the wares to increase (or decrease, because profit comes from cutting) the purity, mixing it (a few may fabricate amalgamated, specialty products at fleeced prices), or altering the chemical composition of the material (such as freebasing cocaine). Wholesalers may also manufacture and disseminate general contraband, including non-narcotic controlled substances (like date rape drugs), paraphernalia, and any panoptic, high-demand item that they may receive. Freebase refers to the standalone basic form of an alkaloid, as opposed to its salt form. ...
Distribution may traverse a selectively chosen group of cartel employees who purchase from a wholesaler and utilize a prominent population of "mules," or it may encompass a heavy chain of users who are selling to finance their own use.
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- security problems similar to distribution of other high-value materials
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These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the DEA. Smuggling is illegal transport, in particular across a border. ...
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Retail selling "Street" selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events, or directly from dealers who have purposefully engaged adolescents (typically). Many users sell in order to fund their own drug use. Although most are in it for the monetary outcome, some view narcotics dispensing and consumption as a means of insurrection and orchestrate it for that cacoethes. They refrain from intensive processing and abstain from umpteen 'business' practices. Although most dealers market to a changeless customer base, these mavericks may be overly advertised on hacker/phreaker/drug/etc. forums and between friends and cohorts. In an effort to crack down on sales to children and adolescents, many US states now have laws on their books that make the penalty for selling drugs more severe if the sale occurs within a short distance from the nearest school; in conjunction with these laws, road signs marked "Drug Free School Zone" have been erected, warning those concerned where the area of enhanced penalties begins. Drug-free school zone is a term used in the United States to denote an area within a certain distance, most commonly 1,000 feet, of the nearest school. ...
See also The prohibition of drugs is a subject of considerable controversy. ...
A counterfeit drug or a counterfeit medicine is, according to the law of many countries, the drug that is sold under a product name without proper approval. ...
Drug paraphernalia is any legitimate equipment, product, or material that is modified for making, using, or concealing illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine. ...
Many countries have laws regarding the cultivation, possession, supply or use of cannabis (hemp). ...
Drug dealers, opium traders, opium smugglers, drug runners, etc. ...
Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ...
The prohibition of drugs through legislation or religious law is a common means of controlling the perceived negative consequences of recreational drug use at a society- or world-wide level. ...
Recreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear. ...
The prohibition of drugs through legislation or religious law is a common means of controlling the perceived negative consequences of recreational drug use at a society- or world-wide level. ...
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